Benny Morris has estimated that hundreds of people were killed . Lieutenant-General John Bagot Glubb , the British commander of Jordan 's Arab Legion stated the numbers were much smaller , citing a UN report for a figure of 30 women and children killed . A follow-up report delivered to the United Nations by a delegation from the Arab Refugee Congress reported that the Arab Legion had had an interest in underplaying the extent of the massacre , which was , it claimed , worse than the Deir Yassin massacre , in order to avoid further panic and refugee flight . The village mukhtar Hassan Mahmoud Ihdeib , in a sworn statement , estimated the number of victims as 145
Deir Yassin massacre
Deir Yassin massacre
Al-Dawayima massacre