10 apr 2014
Hamas Movement has marked in Lebanon the 66th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, which claimed the lives of a large number of native citizens west of Jerusalem in April 1948. The movement's representative in Lebanon Ali Baraka said in a statement on Wednesday that Deir Yassin massacre proves the criminal image of Israeli occupation and reveals its ruthless and arrogant nature, stressing the need to prosecute Israeli continued massacres since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948.
The Palestinian people will not give up their rights despite Israeli crimes and massacres, Baraka added, stressing the Palestinian adherence to resistance option.
He called on the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership to stop negotiations and security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities that only serve Israeli interests and provide a cover for its violations.
Confronting the occupation requires a Palestinian national unity based on resistance option and Palestinian constants and legitimate rights, he added.
The Palestinian people will not give up their rights despite Israeli crimes and massacres, Baraka added, stressing the Palestinian adherence to resistance option.
He called on the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership to stop negotiations and security coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities that only serve Israeli interests and provide a cover for its violations.
Confronting the occupation requires a Palestinian national unity based on resistance option and Palestinian constants and legitimate rights, he added.
9 apr 2014
Remains of Deir Yassin
April 9 is the anniversary of the 1948 massacre of Deir Yassin.
The place looks so quiet here in Deir Yassin. A deep silence drowns the place, a sad silence that reaches to the depths of the soul.
This is the silence of death, loss and betrayal. Of silent memories of children, women and men. They woke up in the morning and in their eyes were a thousand questions, but they did not have time to wait for the answers and died with eyes full of admonishment, anger and fear. They fell in the morning and at noon. The child did not leave his mother’s breast, so they passed together, their angry eyes looking to the heaven and earth.
Birds landed close to forgotten cactuses, grass, weeds and thorns, the remains of almond trees, pomegranates and figs continue to grow stubbornly. Sections of walls overlook from the desolation of the place in sad silence, remnants of paths which have lost their landmarks. The chirping of grasshoppers, the whispers of the wind spin around the space with the echo of sounds coming from a distance of 66 years ago.
The sounds of children. The smoke of stoves billowing to the sky, the dialogue of eyes with a cup of tea. The call to a neighbour crosses the evening. A woman receives the evening greeting and goes up, immersed with the smell of fresh bread. Butterflies hug the clusters of flowers.
This is Deir Yassin. The remains of homes, windows, doors and silent paths, all yearning nostalgically to the distant horizon. It is too quiet here, in Deir Yassin.
April 9 is the anniversary of the 1948 massacre of Deir Yassin.
The place looks so quiet here in Deir Yassin. A deep silence drowns the place, a sad silence that reaches to the depths of the soul.
This is the silence of death, loss and betrayal. Of silent memories of children, women and men. They woke up in the morning and in their eyes were a thousand questions, but they did not have time to wait for the answers and died with eyes full of admonishment, anger and fear. They fell in the morning and at noon. The child did not leave his mother’s breast, so they passed together, their angry eyes looking to the heaven and earth.
Birds landed close to forgotten cactuses, grass, weeds and thorns, the remains of almond trees, pomegranates and figs continue to grow stubbornly. Sections of walls overlook from the desolation of the place in sad silence, remnants of paths which have lost their landmarks. The chirping of grasshoppers, the whispers of the wind spin around the space with the echo of sounds coming from a distance of 66 years ago.
The sounds of children. The smoke of stoves billowing to the sky, the dialogue of eyes with a cup of tea. The call to a neighbour crosses the evening. A woman receives the evening greeting and goes up, immersed with the smell of fresh bread. Butterflies hug the clusters of flowers.
This is Deir Yassin. The remains of homes, windows, doors and silent paths, all yearning nostalgically to the distant horizon. It is too quiet here, in Deir Yassin.
8 apr 2014
Wednesday, April 9, marks the 66th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, which claimed the lives of a large number of native citizens west of Jerusalem, in the aftermath of a brutal attack carried out by Irgun and Stern Gang forces in April 1948.
According to eyewitnesses, 250 to 360 Palestinian civilians were callously massacred and attacked from close range in the process by Jewish fanatical groups, triggering the mass flight of around 750 Palestinians, who feared for their own lives, before holding sway over the land.
The assault was abrasively conducted at about 0300 in the morning but the Zionist gangs were surprised by the unexpected shootings launched by native citizens, which left 4 attackers dead and 32 wounded.
As a result, the Zionist gangs summoned reinforcements and called Hagana forces to help in performing the takeover. Arbitrary shootings were launched on civilians by Zionist militias, to whom neither sex nor age made a difference.
Jewish militias not only kept brutally shedding the villagers’ blood but took, by force, hundreds of civilians who were paraded through Jerusalem under a round of Jewish applauses, before being taken back to Deir Yassin. The event represents one of the most notorious mass-murders ever witnessed by the Palestinian and world’s history. Breaches of international laws and treaties were just countless.
A veteran news reporter said in a tone that reflected the unbelievably traumatic essence of the massacre: “I saw with my own eyes something that nobody, not even a wild beast, would dare commit. A girl was raped and tortured in front of her family by Zionist militias who cut off her breasts afterwards and threw her in fire.”
The Deir Yassin massacre was such a source of dread to native citizens and drove many Palestinians out of their native soil.
The Deir Yassin massacre came also as a result of the growing hatred between Palestinians and Jews in 1948, which reached its peak following Britain’s decision to withdraw all of its troops from Palestine, leading to a state of an incomparable chaos.
In the summer of 1949 the village was re-populated by hundreds of Jewish immigrant families who settled near Deir Yassin in the so-called Givat Shaul Bet which makes part today of a mental health center.
Some of the homes located outside of the borders of the health center are used for residential or commercial profit. Many surviving carob and Almond trees, along with the old cemetery, bear the traces of the legendary Deir Yassin.
According to eyewitnesses, 250 to 360 Palestinian civilians were callously massacred and attacked from close range in the process by Jewish fanatical groups, triggering the mass flight of around 750 Palestinians, who feared for their own lives, before holding sway over the land.
The assault was abrasively conducted at about 0300 in the morning but the Zionist gangs were surprised by the unexpected shootings launched by native citizens, which left 4 attackers dead and 32 wounded.
As a result, the Zionist gangs summoned reinforcements and called Hagana forces to help in performing the takeover. Arbitrary shootings were launched on civilians by Zionist militias, to whom neither sex nor age made a difference.
Jewish militias not only kept brutally shedding the villagers’ blood but took, by force, hundreds of civilians who were paraded through Jerusalem under a round of Jewish applauses, before being taken back to Deir Yassin. The event represents one of the most notorious mass-murders ever witnessed by the Palestinian and world’s history. Breaches of international laws and treaties were just countless.
A veteran news reporter said in a tone that reflected the unbelievably traumatic essence of the massacre: “I saw with my own eyes something that nobody, not even a wild beast, would dare commit. A girl was raped and tortured in front of her family by Zionist militias who cut off her breasts afterwards and threw her in fire.”
The Deir Yassin massacre was such a source of dread to native citizens and drove many Palestinians out of their native soil.
The Deir Yassin massacre came also as a result of the growing hatred between Palestinians and Jews in 1948, which reached its peak following Britain’s decision to withdraw all of its troops from Palestine, leading to a state of an incomparable chaos.
In the summer of 1949 the village was re-populated by hundreds of Jewish immigrant families who settled near Deir Yassin in the so-called Givat Shaul Bet which makes part today of a mental health center.
Some of the homes located outside of the borders of the health center are used for residential or commercial profit. Many surviving carob and Almond trees, along with the old cemetery, bear the traces of the legendary Deir Yassin.
22 jan 2014
Original buildings of Deir Yassin are now used by the Kfar Shaul mental health centre, build on the remains of the village
AICafe invites you on Saturday 25 January at 7.00 p.m for the screening of Deir Yassin and discussion with the Palestinian film maker Sahera Dirbas.
The film introduces five Palestinian survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre during the Naqba war of 1948. They recall their lives in the Deir Yassin district of Jerusalem and tell how they survived the massacre of 9 April 1948.
Sahera Dirbas was born in Haifa in 1964, has published three books about destroyed Palestinian villages, and works as a freelance TV producer and independent researcher for international television networks. She is the director of several films, including Jerusalem Bride and Stranger in my Home.
Come in commemoration of Deir Yassin.
The AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy and grassroots activism. The AICafè is a political and cultural café open on Tuesday and Saturday night from 7pm until 10.30 pm. The AIC is located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, close to Suq Sha'ab (follow the sign to Jadal Center). We have a small library with novels, political books and magazines. We also have a number of films in DVD copies and AIC publications which are aimed to critically analyze both Palestinian and Israeli societies, as well as the conflict itself.
AICafe invites you on Saturday 25 January at 7.00 p.m for the screening of Deir Yassin and discussion with the Palestinian film maker Sahera Dirbas.
The film introduces five Palestinian survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre during the Naqba war of 1948. They recall their lives in the Deir Yassin district of Jerusalem and tell how they survived the massacre of 9 April 1948.
Sahera Dirbas was born in Haifa in 1964, has published three books about destroyed Palestinian villages, and works as a freelance TV producer and independent researcher for international television networks. She is the director of several films, including Jerusalem Bride and Stranger in my Home.
Come in commemoration of Deir Yassin.
The AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy and grassroots activism. The AICafè is a political and cultural café open on Tuesday and Saturday night from 7pm until 10.30 pm. The AIC is located in the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, close to Suq Sha'ab (follow the sign to Jadal Center). We have a small library with novels, political books and magazines. We also have a number of films in DVD copies and AIC publications which are aimed to critically analyze both Palestinian and Israeli societies, as well as the conflict itself.
