After the capture happened rumours of a massacre by Phalangist forces began to circulate, and UPI reported that "up to forty" Druze civilians had been killed.

The attackers did not try to bury the bodies so witnesses reported seeing corpses hanging from balconies and lying on the streets.

[3] Phalangist official Fadi Frem confirmed that the village had been captured, but denied that a massacre had taken place.

His report concluded that there was no involvement by Lebanese soldiers in the massacre, which Druze witnesses and community leaders rejected as false and a whitewashing of the army.

[4] During the recapture of Kfarmatta, Canadian journalist Clark Todd, the London Bureau chief for the CTV Television Network, was shot near the town by combatants.