This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Central and Jerusalem front Northern front International Massacres Biological warfare On November 2, 1948, two squads of Israel Defense Forces soldiers captured an encampment of Bedouins at Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda' in the eastern Galilee.

In retaliation, the Arabs' dwellings were destroyed and 15 or 16 adult males were shot, 14 of whom died.

Their bodies were buried in a cave adjacent to the place where they were killed.

During the 1980s the bones were moved to a common grave in the Muslim cemetery in Eilabun.

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