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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 (Arabic: دير ياسين, romanized: Dayr Yāsīn) was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 inhabitants about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Jerusalem. Deir Yassin declared its neutrality during the 1948 Palestine war between Arabs and Jews.
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 ...
Irgun would become notorious for the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946, in which 91 people died, and the Deir Yassin Massacre on 9 April 1948, carried out in ...
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 ...
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.
Meron Benvenisti regards Deir Yassin as "a turning point in the annals of the destruction of the Arab landscape". [ 44 ] 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 ...