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Deir Yassin in the 1940s Survey of Palestine map When hostilities erupted in 1948, the villagers of Deir Yassin and those of the nearby Jewish village of Giv'at Shaul signed a pact, later approved at Haganah headquarters, to maintain their good relations, exchange information on movement of outsiders through village territory, and ensure the ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Deir Yassin massacre Part of the Nakba, 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and Plan Dalet Jewish paramilitaries in Deir Yassin Location Deir Yassin, Mandatory Palestine Date April 9, 1948 ; 76 years ago (1948-04-09) [a] Target Palestinian Arab villagers Weapons Firearms, grenades, and ...
Deir Yassin massacre: April 9, 1948 107 100-254 Arabs killed [50] [51] [52] Hadassah medical convoy massacre: April 13, 1948 79 78 Jews (nurses, doctors, and patients) and one British soldier killed [53] [54] Ein al Zeitun massacre: May 3, 1948 55 37–70 Arab prisoners Kfar Etzion massacre: May 13, 1948 129 127–157 Jews killed [1] Abu Shusha ...
Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago. Assad, then 16, peered out his front window to see his village ablaze.
Meron Benvenisti regards Deir Yassin as "a turning point in the annals of the destruction of the Arab landscape". [ 41 ] Israel began engaging in biological warfare in April, poisoning the water supplies of certain villages, including a successful operation that caused a typhoid epidemic in Acre in early May, and an unsuccessful attempt in Gaza ...
Over time, Deir Yassin became a halfway site for Arab forces moving from Ein Karem and Malha to al-Qastal and Kolonia, which overlooked the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. [citation needed] On 9 April 1948, Deir Yassin was attacked by Irgun and Lehi forces [8] and between 100 and 110 villagers were killed during the fights or massacred afterward ...
Deir Yassin is a village located 5 kilometres west of Jerusalem. On 9 April 1948, independently of operation Nachshon, around 120 Irgun and Lehi men attacked the village and ran into resistance, capturing it after a fierce battle with Palmach help. The Irgun and Lehi lost 4 dead and 35 wounded.
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé wrote in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) that "The systematic nature of Plan Dalet is manifested in Deir Yassin, a pastoral and cordial village that had reached a non-aggression pact with the Hagana in Jerusalem, but was doomed to be wiped out because it was within the areas designated in Plan ...