The EtZion Bloc was the site of a massacre of Jews by Arab irregulars during the 1948 War of Independence.
> Also according to Benny Morris, the occupying forces held the villagers responsible for taking part in the Kfar Etzion massacre on the grounds that the ‘Loot of the Etzion Block’ was in the village, and therefore took revenge. A trooper, Avraham Vered, added another motive for revenge, the fact that the village was in the Hebron hills, some of whose villagers had been responsible for the 1929 Hebron Massacre. [wikipedia]