[18][19] During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz were killed, along with nearly 60 other family members.

[22] On 28 February, a firefight erupted between Albanian militants and a Serbian police patrol in the small village of Likoshan.

[24] Yugoslav policemen surrounded the group and invited them to surrender, while urging all other persons to clear the premises.

[24] According to the police, after the two-hour deadline had expired, Adem Jashari, his brother and most of his family-members, however still refused to comply and remained inside the compound.

After a tense verbal stand-off, according to official Serbian statements, Jashari's group responded by firing on the police using automatic weapons as well as mortars, hand grenades and snipers, killing two and injuring three policemen.

[24] Goran Radosavljević, a major in the Serbian Interior Ministry, claimed that "Adem Jashari used women, children and the elderly as hostages...".

[25] Yugoslav Army General Nebojša Pavković stated that "It was a normal policing action against a well-known criminal.

Serbian soldiers also apprehended Nazim Jashari as he attempted to flee and extrajudicially executed him by firing several rounds into his back as he lay on his stomach.

[29] On 6 March, police officers spotted a BBC journalist and an Albanian translator who were attempting to capture footage of the destruction of the Jashari compound.

[30] She claimed that the policemen had "threatened her with a knife and ordered her to say that her uncle (Adem Jashari) had killed everyone who wanted to surrender.

[32] On 10 March, the police got a bulldozer and dug a mass grave near Prekaz, and buried the bodies, ten of which were still unidentified at that time.

[37] The Prekaz attack led to a rapid increase of the KLA's popularity among ethnic-Albanians and village militias were formed in many parts of Kosovo.