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 | | The third and largest Arab atrocity of the war, the massacre by irregulars of dozens of surrendering Haganah troops, including some twenty women, at Kfar Etzion in the Etzion Bloc of settlements just north of Hebron, on May 13, was unprovoked by any immediate Jewish attack or atrocity. |
 | | Israeli spokesmen countered that the peculiar conditions of operation of such unitssmall squads dressed as Arabs operating in the middle of Arab towns and without close support of regular troopsmade haste with the trigger finger an imperative of survival. |
 | | At the same time, the decades of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights has resulted in the systematic deployment of a variety of measures that are contrary to international humanitarian law, including torture of suspected terrorists, house demolitions, administrative detention without due process, and deportations. |
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