What was happening at the time was a war. As usual, Team Pallywood tries to paint the Arab Muslims as innocent civilians being massacred by violent and evil Israelis when they were in fact, militants hiding and attacking from amongst a civilian population.
No different than today.
They were innocent civillians and they were massacred by the IDF as part of a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing. As usual zionists try to paint them as "evil terrorists" bent on the extermination of "the Jewish people" in order to deflect attention from the magnitude of their crimes against defenceless old people, women and children.
Of course they were and they did not lift a finger to hurt the Jews at any time did they. Just as hamas, fatah and islamic jihad have never raised a finger against the Jews to warrant return of fire. How is it that every arab muslim is an innocent civilian to your neo marxists and islamonazi's. Why do you constantly inflate the numbers even when the evidence shows that they were impossible to achieve. As in claiming 700,000 refugees were forcibly evicted when the last census showed that only 350,000 lived there and this figure included trans Jordan. The most crimes were committed by the same arab muslims who raped, stole, pillaged and murdered their way across palestine from 1917 to 1948. Try reading some proper history books and see what they have to say, or does your brain turn off when it see's the truth and goes into hibernation.
NOW WHEN DID THE LoN GIVE THE LAND TO THE ARAB MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS AFTER HAVING ALREADY GIVEN THEM TRANS JORDAN