Some Israeli soldiers who were there deny that any massacre took place or that there was a mass grave in Tantura. And to this day, no one has an exact number of those killed, with accounts ranging from a few dozen to more than 200. Some survivor accounts collected by Israeli and Palestinian researchers over the years say the troops separated the men from the other villagers and killed them, burying them in a mass grave. And it's the aftermath of the battle that's the subject of the film and the debate. MOHAMMAD: Al-Ahmad says she witnessed the Israelis kill 13 men after the fighting ended. There was a short battle between the Israeli troops and villagers. She was sleeping in her home when she awoke to heavy gunfire and people screaming.
MOHAMMAD: Rashida Al Amar, who was 18 at the time, recalled what happened in a 2015 interview for a Jordanian TV channel. RASHIDA AL AMAR: (Non-English language spoken). LINAH MOHAMMAD, BYLINE: It was the night of the 22 of May, 1948, when the Alexandroni Brigade's 33rd Battalion of what would become the Israeli military entered Tantura. And it's prompted pushback from some Israelis and calls for justice from Palestinians. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. For Palestinians, it's the beginning of Nakba, the catastrophe. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways.
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