01:00 Shadmi informs Malinki that some parts of Operation Mole would be approved by noon that day, but the full operation has not been authorized at this point.

Border Police Battalion 2 headquarters is transferred to Kfar Sava.

Malinki is urgently summoned to the brigade headquarters at Kalmania Farm, near Kfar Sava, where he meets Brigade Commander Shadmi, and the two have a private conversation. The brigade commander gives the battalion commander the battalion’s mission, which includes enforcing the curfew in Ibtan, Bir a-Sikkah, Qalansuwa, Tira, Taybeh, Jaljulya, Kafr Bara and Kafr Qasim, as per Operation Mole.

14:00 Malinki calls a battalion operation orders briefing with the fourteen company and platoon commanders in the battalion and gives them their missions. Once the briefing is over, the Border Police officers deploy to the various villages in the sector.

15:00 Malinki continues to another brigade operation orders briefing.

16:00 Lieutenant Gavriel Dahan’s company arrives at Kafr Qasim and splits into seven squads that spread through the village.

16:30 Company Sergeant, Yehuda Zashatzky notifies the village mukhtar (head) that the curfew has been pushed up to 5:00 PM instead of 10:00 PM. The mukhtar cautions he would not be able to notify village residents who work outside the village in time.

17:00 The Kafr Qasim curfew goes into effect.

17:01 - The murder at the northern entrance to the village: Immediately after the curfew goes into effect, Shalom Ben Fordo and his squad (squad 2) kill three people, including a nine-year old boy and a 15-year-old boy.

17:05 – The first wave in the western part of the village (the “fork” area). Lance Corporal Shalom Ofer and the members of his squad (squad 1) kill two laborers returning from work at a quarry. Two others pretend to be dead. One later sneaks into the village, hiding amongst a goat herd.

17:12 - Second wave: : Lieutenant Gavriel Dahan and his squad members kill two men. A third is wounded, and the shooters take him for dead. Before firing, a young girl and an older boy who had arrived with them are sent home.

17:20 - The third wave: Shalom Ofer and his squad kill a father and son who return to the village with their herd after grazing.

Close to 17:20, inside the village, a seven-year-old who went out to retrieve the herd from grazing when he heard the curfew had been pushed up is shot at the entrance to his home. His father, mother and sister, who run to him, are shot and wounded. The boy lay dying in his home and finally passed away. His grandfather died the next day.

17:22 - The fourth wave: Dahan orders a truck with 23 passengers to go into the village. As it begins advancing, a 20-year-old man, who was nearby, runs to the truck and tries to get on it. He is shot and killed by the policemen in Shalom Ofer’s squad.

17:30 - The fifth wave: One of the policemen orders a truck making its way to the village with six people on board to continue toward the village. Shots are fired at the moving truck from behind, from the direction of Shalom Ofer’s squad. One man is killed.

17:35 - The sixth wave: Thirteen men who arrive at the “fork” by cart or bicycle are made to stand in a row and asked where they live. Shalom Ofer orders two policemen who have been lying by the side of the road, one of them armed with a Bren machine gun, to open fire. Any of the wounded who show signs of life are shot again. Five are killed, four are seriously wounded. Three flee to a nearby field. Another man, who had been wounded in the leg, crawls to a nearby olive tree, climbs it and hides there for two days. Another wounded man pretends to be dead. The policemen drag him to the pile of bodies.

17:42 - The seventh wave: A truck driver and his eighteen passengers are ordered by Shalom Ofer to get off the truck and stand in a row. To his question, all answer that they live in Kafr Qasim. Ofer then orders Haroush Mahlouf and Avraham Eliahu, who ae lying by the side of the road, to open fire. Ten are killed. The policemen shoot the wounded.

17:52 - The eighth wave: A truck transporting bricks arrives at the entrance to the village with two villagers inside. They are taken out of the truck, shot and killed.

17:55 - The ninth wave: A truck with four men and fourteen women, aged twelve to 66, arrives at the village on its way back from the olive harvest in Lod. The truck driver stops at Ofer’s demand, and he and the passengers are taken out of the truck. The group huddles together and Ofer orders members of Gavriel Uliel’s squad, which joined his own squad shortly before, to open fire. After the initial barrage of fire, the wounded are shot in the head. Seventeen of the eighteen men and women are killed. One woman is seriously wounded in the head but survives.

17:55 - Tira: Policeman David Mizrahi shoots a man at the eastern entrance to the village after he allegedly failed to stop when called to do so. In a separate incident, a 66-year-old man is shot on his way back on foot from his work as a guard in sugar cane fields. He was initially shot and wounded in the arm. Then two policemen approached and killed him.

At around 18:00, Malinki finds out about the killings in Kafr Qasim and gives orders to hold fire until 19:30, other than incidents of gunfire, assault, forcible resistance or escape.

18:20 - Taybeh: A thirteen-year-old is shot and killed on his way to buy cigarettes for his father, who did not know the curfew had been pushed.

19:15 The removal of bodies and evacuation of the wounded begins. Four of the wounded are taken to hospital. Nine bodies are put on a command car and taken to HaSharon Hospital, where they are denied admittance. The remaining bodies are taken by truck to the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, where they are also denied admittance. All 47 bodies are taken to a forest near Antipatris Fort in Rosh Ha’ayin.

19:30 Malinki forbids any more fire aside from cases cited in the orders he gave at 18:30.

21:30 On Malinki’s orders, Company Commander Haim Levy interrogates Gavriel Dahan and takes down his statement.

23:00 Central Command Brigade 17 Liaison Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Dov Nisrhi arrives on behalf of the OC Command to carry out an initial inquiry into the massacre.

02:00 A discussion is held at the office of OC Central Command Zvi Tzur. In attendance: Lieutenant Colonel Nisrhi, Malinki, Shadmi, Command Operations Directorate Officer Abrasha Tamir, representatives of the Military Government, the head of the minority department at the Prime Minister’s Office and others. Ben Gurion’s military adjutant, Nehemia Argov, informs Chief Military Censor Avner Bar-On that “a blackout should be put on the entire affair”. The next day, the head of the Intelligence Directorate relays Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan’s order to continue the blackout to the Military Censorship.