The deaths of July 12 are regarded in the Arab world and by several historians as a massacre . Walid Khalidi calls it " an orgy of indiscriminate killing . " Morris writes that the " jittery Palmahniks massacr ed detainees in a mosque compound . " According to Gelber , it was a " bloodier massacre " than at Deir Yassin . Alon Kadish and Avraham Sela write that it was " an intense battle where the demarcation between civilians , irregular combatants and regular army units hardly existed . " Here is a non-exhaustive list of killings and massacres that took place during the war :
Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin massacre
Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war