April 9, 1948 Mutilation of Corpses at Kastel Battle

“Just before dawn, two of Tabenkin’s companies stormed into Kastel – which they found completely deserted, save for dozens of corpses. The Palmahniks buried the dead. Some of the Jewish corpses had been badly mutilated.”

“At one point in the battle, the “French Commando,” many of them ex-Foreign Legionnaires and Moroccan Jews, retreated from one of the conquered positions under heavy Egyptian fire, leaving behind, under a railway bridge, a handful of wounded. WHEN THEY RETOOK THE POSITION A HALF-HOUR LATER, THEY FOUND THAT ALL THE WOUNDED HAD BEEN MURDERED, WITH THEIR GENITALS MUTILATED AND THEIR PENISES STUCK IN THEIR MOUTHS. SOME HAD BEEN BLINDED WITH BURNING CIGARETTES.”

Source: Gutmann, David. The Arab Lie Whose Time Has Come – Veteran of the 1948 War Dissects the Myth of Palestinian Innocence. April 21, 2004.; Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008. 110-111; Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2008. 111, 124-125; 361-362; http://www.middleeastpiece.com/palestinianviolence.html