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' said anyone who left his house would be shot.

It would be best if on the first night there were ' a few like that ' and on the following nights they would be more careful.

I asked: in the light of that, I can understand that a guerilla is to be killed but what about the fate of the Arab civilians?

And they may come back to the village in the evening from the valley, from settlements or from the fields, and won't know about the curfew in the village-I suppose I am to have sentries at the approaches to the village?

To this Col. Issachar replied in crystal clear words, ' I don't want sentimentality and I don't want arrests, there will be no arrests '.

I said: ' Even though ?'.

To that he answered me in Arabic, Allah Yarhamu, which I understood as equivalent to the Hebrew phrase, ' Blessed be the true judge ' on receiving news of a person's death '.