The village of Tantura, near Haifa, is…

The village of Tantura, near Haifa, is home to some fifteen hundred Arabs.

Israeli journalist Amir Gilat will later publish the story of an alleged massacre in Tantura in the news daily Ma'ariv, based on a master's thesis submitted to the University of Haifa by a graduate student named Theodore Katz.

In a paper on The Exodus of the Arabs from the Villages at the foot of Mount Carmel, Katz will claim Israeli forces killed two hundred and forty Arabs from Tantura during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.

Katz will not use the word massacre, although other scholars will be quick to use this term.

The Alexandroni veterans will protest, and Gilat will write a follow-up piece including their denial that a massacre had occurred.

In August 1998, a former resident of the village, Mahmoud al Yihiya Yihiya, will publish a book about Tantura in which he describes the battle and names fifty-two villagers who died, but does not call it a massacre.