Talk:Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war

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Why "killings and"?

Why does it need "killings and"? The smallest is 6 deaths, the definition is often 3 or more. MWQs (talk) 23:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gelber's Quote

The quotes attributed to Gelber do not appear on his referenced article, please delete — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlfredB123 (talk • contribs) 03:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AlfredB123: Several works of Gelber are cited. Please indicate which quotes you are referring to. Zero^talk 05:01, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removed content for review

I removed content in this edit. Just putting this here for review in case any of this content was wrongly removed or is salvageable. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 09:32, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was added in 2022 by an editor who was later blocked indefinitely for edit-warring. Regarding Dore Gold, he is a professional propagandist (a major figure in the Likud establishment) and we shouldn't care what he writes about anything. I also can't find anything like this in his book and absent a page number it's gone regardless. As for Sivan, he says that 600 Jewish civilians died "during the bombing and siege of Jerusalem". The text in our article said "In contrast to Morris, the Jewish inhabitants of the Old City were expelled and 600 of them were killed". (1) "In contrast to Morris" is wrong as Morris does not disagree with Sivan, and Sivan does not mention Morris. (2) "the Jewish inhabitants of the Old City were expelled" is true but Sivan does not say it. (3) "600 of them were killed" in context seems to imply a massacre in the Old City, but Sivan does not say that. In fact, Sivan says nothing to imply anything except that they were war casualties. Zero^talk 13:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lydda death toll

Does anyone know where the range of deaths for the Lydda come from? What is the source of the given upper bound of 1700? IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 08:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Content dispute

Edits I made, which mostly removed content as being undue, were reverted by @Boksi in this edit [1].

This should be discussed. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 06:45, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Morris and Gelber seem to be among the leading sources for this topic. Please don't remove content for ideological reasons. Boksi (talk) 05:52, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Boksi has been blocked as a POV pushing sock account and I've restored my edits. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 18 April 2025

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Hello and thank you: I'm not sure if I'm able to directly edit, but would rather go this route anyway. This edit merely brings information from one Wikipedia page (Battle of Haifa) to the appropriate place in the table on this page. I'll note that the data from Kimche refers to "Arabs" but in the context I think that maps onto "Palestinians" in the table of this page. But no harm in saying "~300 Arabs", but in the context of that battle it is clearly Palestinians, referred to at the time I believe as Arabs.

Description of suggested change: In the table at Battle of Haifa 19480421-19480422, the number of casualties is said to be unknown, but the Battle of Haifa page contains an estimate by Jon Kimche of ~300, with a reference on that page to #28: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Haifa_(1948)#cite_note-28. Diff:

Antillarum (talk) 15:25, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added Kimche's estimate. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 17:44, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]