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The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, killing at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children. [1] The attack was conducted primarily by the Irgun and Lehi, who were supported by the Haganah and Palmach. The ...
Deir Yassin has been identified as one of the villages given as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 12th century. [5] However, in 1136 Fulk, King of Jerusalem confirmed it was a casale under the Knights Hospitallers.
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.
The village of Deir Yassin was located west of Jerusalem, but its strategic importance was debatable and its inhabitants had not participated in the war until one week before the attack. [107] [108] On 9 April, around 120 men from the Irgun and the Lehi attacked the village in the context of the Operation Nachshon. The poorly armed inhabitants ...
Combined with the fear inspired by Deir Yassin, each of these military actions resulted in panicked Palestinian evacuations. [41] [42] [43] The significance of the attacks by underground military groups Irgun and Lehi on Deir Yassin is underscored by accounts on all sides.
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 ...
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