Arab refugee from 1948 says the Jews told them not to leave

Official PA TV program And We’re Back, on the Arab village of Al-Manshiyya northeast of Acre, which was abandoned and destroyed during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence

Former Al-Manshiyya resident Ahmed: “The Jews occupied Napoleon’s Hill and began to fire bullets at the village… They began to shoot at the village, and most of the people left. I remember that there was an Israeli [army] officer named Monjo from Kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He had connections with people from Al-Manshiyya, especially with the village chief. He told the village chief: ‘Tell them that no one is to leave the place.’ But what did they start to say? The village chief is a traitor, the village chief sold [the village to the Jews] – and the people began to flee.”

[Official PA TV, And We’re Back, July 24, 2023]