Mass Palestinian grave found in Tel Aviv - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
The remains of dozens of Palestinians killed by Israelis in fighting
during the war of 1948 which led to the creation of the state of Israel
have been found in a mass grave in Tel Aviv's Jaffa district.
An official at the Muslim cemetery there told AFP news agency that
the grisly find occurred on Wednesday when ground subsided as workers
carried out renovations, revealing six chambers full of skeletons.
Jaffa fisherman Atar Zeinab, 80, says that as a teenager during the
final months of fighting in 1948, he helped to collect the Arab dead in
the area south of Jaffa and bring them for hasty burial in the cemetery,
the area's main graveyard.
"I carried to the cemetery 60 bodies during a period of three or four
months," he told AFP. "We used to find the people in the street and
most of the time we didn't know who they were."
