According to Lapidot, Mordechai Raanan, the Irgun district commander in Jerusalem, stressed that women, children, and the elderly must not be harmed, and that the villagers were to be warned by loudspeaker to give them a chance to escape.
Mordechai Raanan, Irguns kommendant i Jerusalem, ska ha betonat att kvinnor, barn och åldringar inte skulle skadas och att byinvånarna genom högtalare skulle bli varnade att fly.