occurred after the town was occupied by the IDF's 89th Commando Battalion. According to the village leader, IDF troops fired indiscriminately for over an hour, during which time many fled. On returning the day with other villagers, 60 bodies were found in the mosque, mostly elderly men. Numerous corpses of men, women and children, lay in the streets. 80 bodies of men, women and children were then found in the entrance of the El Zagh cavern. According to an IDF soldier: "The 1st [wave] of conquerors killed about 80 to 100 men, women, and children. The children they killed by breaking their heads with sticks. There was not a house without dead." "1 commander ordered his men to put 2 old women in the house and blow it up. 1 soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her. 1 woman, with a baby in her arms was employed to clean the courtyard where the soldiers ate. She worked a day or two. In the end they shot her and her baby."