<sod>Al-Dawaymima was captured by [[Israel]]'s [[89th Commando Battalion|Eighty Ninth Battalion]] (commanded by Dov Chesis) of the [[8th Armored Brigade (Israel)|8th Armored Brigade]] led by the founder of the [[Palmach]], [[Yitzhak Sadeh]], after [[Operation Yoav]] on 29 October 1948, five days after the start of the truce. It was the site of the [[al-Dawayima massacre]] in which 80-200 civilians were killed including women and children.<ref name=Jawad/><eod>
<sod>Al-Dawaymima was captured by [[Israel]]'s [[89th Commando Battalion|Eighty Ninth Battalion]] (commanded by Dov Chesis) of the [[8th Armored Brigade (Israel)|8th Armored Brigade]] led by the founder of the [[Palmach]], [[Yitzhak Sadeh]], after [[Operation Yoav]] on 29 October 1948, five days after the start of the truce. It was the site of the [[al-Dawayima massacre]] in which 80-200 civilians were killed including women and children.<ref name=Jawad/> According to Lieutenant-General [[John Bagot Glubb]], a British officer stationed with Jordanian's [[Arab Legion]] in Bethlehem and Hebron at that time, the number of killed was far less, who wrote: "On October 31st, United Nations observers reported that the Israelis had killed thirty women and children at Dawaima (Dawayima), west of Hebron. It would be an exaggeration to claim that great numbers were massacred. But just enough were killed, or roughly handled, to make sure that all the civilian population took flight, thereby leaving more and more land vacant for future Jewish settlement. These particular villages west of Hebron were to remain vacant and their lands uncultivated for eight years."<ref name=Glubb/><eod>