Dor

Tantura was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. Near the village, lies ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor.The village stood on a low limestone hill overlooking the shoreline of two small bays. The water was supplied from a well in the eastern part of the village. The al-Bab gate was in the southeast of the village. The Roman ruins were on the coast to the north with the hill of Umm Rashid to the south. In 1945 it had a population of 1,490.

The village was targeted in the early stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, with its houses looted and its Arab Palestinian inhabitants expelled and others massacred by the Israeli Defense Force's Alexandroni Brigade. The Tantura massacre was first documented by a Palestinian politician in 1951, decades before a 2021 Israeli documentary revealed testimony from several IDF veterans affirming that a massacre, involving somewhere between several to 200…