On November 2, 1948, two squads of Israel Defense Forces soldiers captured a Palestinian Bedouin village in Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda in Tiberias Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine. While some soldiers guarded over the residents, others went to a nearby hilltop, where the headless bodies of two Israeli soldiers were found. In retaliation, the Bedouin homes were destroyed and 15 to 16 adult males were shot, 14 of whom died.
Most of the victims were members of the 'Arab Al-Mawasi clan. Their bodies were buried in a cave adjacent to the place where they were killed. In the 1950s, the Israeli National Water Project was dug through the cave, and the Mawasi people took the bones to another cave. During the 1980s, the bones were moved to a common grave in the Muslim cemetery in Eilabun.
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