9 Apr 1948
It's A Place Called Palestine
“They used to enter houses and kill women and children indiscriminately”: Deir Yasin Massacre, 09.04.1948
It's A Place Called Palestine
“They used to enter houses and kill women and children indiscriminately”: Deir Yasin Massacre, 09.04.1948
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(Palestine): The forces of the Zionist gangs Tsel, Irgun and Hagana, fitted out with the Zionist terrorist strategy of killing civilians in order to achieve their aspirations, began stealing into the village on the night of April 9, 1948. Their purpose was to uproot the Palestinian people from their land by coming upon the inhabitants of the village unawares, destroying their homes and burning them down on top of those inside, thereby making clear to the entire world to what depths of barbarism Zionist had sunk.
The attack began as the children were asleep in their mothers' and fathers' arms. In the words of Menachim Begin as he described events, "the Arabs fought tenaciously in defense of their homes, their women and their children." The fighting proceeded from house to house, and whenever the Jews occupied a house, they would blow it up, then direct a call to the inhabitants to flee or face death.
Believing the threat, the people left in terror in hopes of saving their children and women. But what should the Stern and Irgun gangs do but rush to mow down whoever fell within range of their weapons. Then, in a picture of barbarism the likes of which humanity has rarely witnessed except on the part of the most depraved, the terrorists began throwing bombs inside the houses in order to bring them down on whoever was inside. The orders they had received were for them to destroy every house. Behind the explosives there marched the Stern and Irgun terrorists, who killed whoever they found alive.
The explosions continued in the same barbaric fashion until the afternoon of April 10, 1948.7 Then they gathered together the civilians who were still alive, stood them up beside the walls and in corners, then fired on them.8 About twenty-five men were brought out of the houses, loaded onto a truck and led on a "victory tour" in the neighborhood of Judah Mahayina and Zakhroun Yousif. At the end of the tour, the men were brought to a stone quarry located between Tahawwu'at Shawul and Dair Yasin, where they were shot in cold blood.
The attack began as the children were asleep in their mothers' and fathers' arms. In the words of Menachim Begin as he described events, "the Arabs fought tenaciously in defense of their homes, their women and their children." The fighting proceeded from house to house, and whenever the Jews occupied a house, they would blow it up, then direct a call to the inhabitants to flee or face death.
Believing the threat, the people left in terror in hopes of saving their children and women. But what should the Stern and Irgun gangs do but rush to mow down whoever fell within range of their weapons. Then, in a picture of barbarism the likes of which humanity has rarely witnessed except on the part of the most depraved, the terrorists began throwing bombs inside the houses in order to bring them down on whoever was inside. The orders they had received were for them to destroy every house. Behind the explosives there marched the Stern and Irgun terrorists, who killed whoever they found alive.
The explosions continued in the same barbaric fashion until the afternoon of April 10, 1948.7 Then they gathered together the civilians who were still alive, stood them up beside the walls and in corners, then fired on them.8 About twenty-five men were brought out of the houses, loaded onto a truck and led on a "victory tour" in the neighborhood of Judah Mahayina and Zakhroun Yousif. At the end of the tour, the men were brought to a stone quarry located between Tahawwu'at Shawul and Dair Yasin, where they were shot in cold blood.
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Then the Etsel and Layhi "fighters" brought the women and the children who had managed to survive up to a truck and took them to the Mendelbaum Gate. [8] Finally, a Hagana unit came and dug a mass grave in which it buried 250 Arab corpses, most of them women, children and the elderly. [9]
A woman who survived the massacre by the name of Halima Id describes what happened to her sister. She says, "I saw a soldier grabbing my sister, Saliha al-Halabi, who was nine months pregnant. He pointed a machine gun at her neck, then emptied its contents into her body. Then he turned into a butcher, and grabbed a knife and ripped open her stomach to take out the slaughtered child with his iniquitous Nazi knife." [10] In another location in the village, Hanna Khalil, a girl at the time, saw a man unsheathing a large knife and ripping open the body her neighbor Jamila Habash from head to toe. Then he murdered their neighbor Fathi in the same way at the entranceway to the house. [11] A 40-year-old woman named Safiya describes how she was come upon by a man who suddenly opened up his trousers and pounced on her. "I began screaming and wailing. But the women around me were all meeting the same fate. After that they tore off our clothes so that they could fondle our breasts and our bodies with gestures too horrible to describe." [12] Some of the soldiers cut off women's ears in order to get at a few small earrings. [13] Once news of the massacre had gotten out, a delegation from the Red Cross tried to visit the village. However, they weren't allowed to visit the site until a day after the time they had requested. Meanwhile the Zionists tried to cover up the evidence of |
their crime. They gathered up as much as they could of the victims' dismembered corpses, threw them in the village well, then closed it up. And they tried to change the landmarks in the area so that the Red Cross representative wouldn't be able to find his way there. However, he did find his way to the well, where he found 150 maimed corpses belonging to women, children and the elderly. And in addition to the bodies which were found in the well, scores of others had been buried in mass graves while still others remained strewn over street corners and in the ruins of houses. [14]
Afterwards, the head of the terrorist Hagana gang which had taken part in burying the Palestinian civilians wrote saying that his group had not undertaken a military operation against armed men, the reason being that they wanted to plant fear in the Arabs' hearts. This was the reason they chose a peaceable, unarmed village, since in this way they could spread terror among the Arabs and force them to flee. [15]
Deir Yasin Martyrs
Afterwards, the head of the terrorist Hagana gang which had taken part in burying the Palestinian civilians wrote saying that his group had not undertaken a military operation against armed men, the reason being that they wanted to plant fear in the Arabs' hearts. This was the reason they chose a peaceable, unarmed village, since in this way they could spread terror among the Arabs and force them to flee. [15]
Deir Yasin Martyrs
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1 Isma’il Shakir Mustafa (1 yr old)
2 Ahmad Hussein Omar ‘Atiyah (4 yrs old) 3 Isma’il Al-Haj Khalil (40 yrs old) 4 Ahmad Hussein Ahmad Jabir (45 yrs old) 5 As’ad Ridwan (75 yrs old) 6 Isma’il Atiyah (95 yrs old) 7 Amnah Hussein (80 yrs old) 8 Amnah Ali Mustafa 9 Amnah Al-Kobari 10 Basima As’ad Ridwan (25 yrs old) 11 Jabir Tawfiq Jabir Jaber (27 yrs old) 12 Jamil Issa Eid (30 yrs old) 13 Jabir Mustafa Jabir (75 yrs old) 14 Husniyyeh ‘Atiyah 15 Hilwa Zeidan (50 yrs old) 16 Hasan Ali Zeidan 17 Hassan Ya’coub Mohammad Ali Farhan 18 Hussein Ismail Mohammad Sammour 19 Khalil Mustafa Jabir (35 yrs old) 20 Khadra Al-Bituniyyah (60 yrs old) 21 Hayat Al-Balbisi 22 Samia Ali Mustafa (17 yrs old) 23 Salim Mohammad Ismail (25 yrs old) 24 Su’ad Ismail ‘Atiyah (21 yrs old) 25 Sa’id Mohammad Ismail ‘Atiyah (7 yrs old) 26 Samiha Ahmad Zahran (7 yrs old) 27 Sa’id Mohammad Sa’id (15 yrs old) 28 Samih Ahmad Zahran (9 yrs old) 29 Sammour Khalil Ismail (11 yrs old) 30 Said Musa Zahran 31 Shafiq Musa Mustafa 32 Shafiq Shakir Mustafa 33 Shafiqa Musa Mustafa 34 Subhiya Radwan (75 yrs old) 35 Safiyya Mohammad Eid Al-Sheikh (70 yrs old) 36 Salhia Mohammad Eid (20 yrs old) 37 Tharifa Mohammad Ali Khalil (16 yrs old) 38 Isa Ahmad Yousif (50 yrs old) 39 Abdel Rahman Hussein Hamid (52 yrs old) 40 ‘Ayish Khalil (70 yrs old) 41 Aziza Ali Mustafa (17 yrs old) 42 Abdallah Abdel Majid Sammour (23 yrs old) 43 Ali Hasan Ali Zeidan (30 yrs old) 44 Ali Mohammad Zahran 45 Ali Hussein Ali (35 yrs old) 46 Ali Al-Haj Khalil (30 yrs old) 47 ‘Aida Ali Mustafa Al-‘Amouri (40 yrs old) 48 ‘Awni Ismail ‘Atiyah (8 yrs old) 49 Ali Abdel Rahim Hamid (10 yrs old) 50 Isa Mohammad Eid (15 yrs old) 51 Omar Ahmad Zahran 52 ‘Imran Mohammad Ismail Atiyah 53 ‘Aziza Misleh 54 Ali Al-Khalili 55 Ali Hussein Hasan Misleh 56 Yusra Musa Mustafa |
57 Yousif Ahmad Alia
58 Fatima Sammour (45 yrs old) 59 Fatima Mohammad Eid Al-Malhia (70 yrs old) 60 Fatima Jum’a Zahran (6 yrs old) 61 Fatima Ismail Atiya 62 Fathi Jum’a Zahran (2 yrs old) 63 Fouad Al-Sheikh Khalil (12 yrs old) 64 Faris Dweik (30 yrs old) 65 Faddiya Ismail Sammour 66 Fathiya Jum’a Zahran 67 Mahmoud Ali Mustafa (17 yrs old) 68 Mahmoud Mohammad Judeh (25 yrs old) 69 Mazien Ahmad Ridwan (5 yrs old) 70 Mustafa Ali Zeidan (9 yrs old) 71 Mohammad Al-Haj ‘Ayish (25 yrs old) 72 Mohammad Mahmoud Ismail Sammour (35 yrs old) 73 Mohammad Ali Khalil (25 yrs old) 74 Mohammad Ismail ‘Atiyah (50 yrs old) 75 Mohammad Mahmoud Zahran (14 yrs old) 76 Mohammad Musa Zahran (17 yrs old) 77 Mariam Mohammad Atiya (10 yrs old) 78 Musa Mohammad Ismail Atiya (13 yrs old) 79 Mohammad Mahmoud Ismail Atiya (15 yrs old) 80 Mustafa Mahmoud Mustafa Zeidan (11 yrs old) 81 Mohammad Hussein Mohammad ‘Atiyah (2 yrs old) 82 Mohammad Khalil Jabir (5 yrs old) 83 Mohammad Ali Mustafa (50 yrs old) 84 Mohammad Ali Misleh (55 yrs old) 85 Mohammad Jouden Hamdan (66 yrs old) 86 Mahmoud Mustafa Jabir (50 yrs old) 87 Mansour Abdel Aziz Sammour (27 yrs old) 88 Mohammad Ali Zahran 89 Mohammad Musa Mustafa 90 Maysar Musa Mustafa 91 Mohammad Said Jaber 92 Musa Ismail Sammour 93 Mohammad Ali Mustafa Zeidan 94 Nijma Ismail (100 yrs old) 95 Nathmi Ahmad Zahran (2 yrs old) 96 Ruqayya E’lian Ahmad Zahran (30 yrs old) 97 Ridwan As’ad Ridwan (14 yrs old) 98 Zeinab Jum’a Zahran (4 yrs old) 99 Zeinab Mohammad ‘Atiyah (15 yrs old) 100 Ribhi Mohammad Ismail ‘Atiyah (16 yrs old) 101 Rasmiya Musa Zahran 102 Zeinab Mohammad Musa Zahran 103 Tamam Mohammad Ali Hasan (17 yrs old) 104 Tawfiq Jabr (40 yrs old) 105 Watfa Abed Mohammad Ali Hasan 106 Sara Al-Kobariyya (40 yrs old) 107 Mohammad Zahran (65 yrs old) 108 ‘Aisha Ridwan 109 Khaldiyya ‘Eid 110 Jamila Hussein 111 Qadariyyah Zeidan (4 yrs old) 112 Zeidan, his wife, father and uncle |
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