Today, Friday, the Palestinians commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, which was carried out by the Zionist gangs only a month before the declaration of the establishment of Israel on the ruins of occupied Palestine, and the massacre represented a milestone in the stabilization of the Zionist project on the land of Palestine, and it won the largest number of Arab and Israeli writings and writings, and won confessions One of the top generals involved in it.
Where is the town of Deir Yassin?
The village of Deir Yassin is located to the west of occupied Jerusalem, and Jewish settlement began in it since 1906, while the Ottoman forces fortified their heights to confront the British occupying forces in 1917, and enjoyed remarkable economic activity and remarkable demographic growth. After the occupation of Palestine in 1948, the Jewish settlers called it "Givat Shaul."
The Deir Yassin massacre, the history of which is not forgotten (communication sites)
When did the massacre take place?
The massacre occurred at dawn on April 9, 1948 and continued until one in the afternoon, one day after the martyrdom of the Palestinian military commander, Abdul Qadir al-Husseini, in the Battle of Qastal, and the village was subjected to the most heinous massacre at the hands of the Zionist gangs, as its people were surprised by loudspeakers calling for their evacuation quickly, and they found themselves Surrounded by all sides, the killers murdered and maimed the people.
Who were the perpetrators of the massacre?
About 150 Jewish elements participated in the execution of the massacre, led by Menachem Begin, leader of the "Irgun" gang, the later Israeli prime minister who signed the Camp David agreement with Egypt in 1979 and won the Nobel Peace Prize with Sadat, and Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the "Stern" gang, the late prime minister, and Raya The massacre is a way to expel the Palestinians and exterminate them.
What are the details of the massacre?
The leadership of the two gangs devised a plan to attack the village by moving on 4 axes, the first of which advances from the settlement of "Givat Shaul", and the second is preceded by an armored vehicle carrying a loudspeaker from the east to the heart of the village, and the third axis starts from the settlement of "Beit Hakram" to break into from the southeastern sides at the Sheikh Mosque. Yassin, heading the fourth axis from "Beit Hakarm" and attacking with a detour from the west.
The massacre began at dawn when the Zionists stormed the village and surprised its sleeping people, but its youths faced them with resistance that did not last long in front of their rain with mortar shells, which paved the way for their storming, so the Zionists blew up Palestinian homes and killed every mobility, and they stopped children, elderly and youth on the walls and roamed the streets of Jerusalem, then executed them by firing squad. Shot.
A press reporter described the details of the massacre, saying that it is "something the monsters themselves are reluctant to do. The killers brought a Palestinian girl and raped her in the presence of her family, then they started torturing her and threw her into the fire. They also mutilated the bodies of the martyrs, mutilated their organs, and cracked the stomachs of pregnant women."
A sign bearing the names of some orphans of Deir Yassin (Al-Jazeera)
How much was the toll of the massacre of the martyrs and the wounded?
The most popular historical accounts circulate that the Zionists slaughtered between 250 and 300 Palestinians in this massacre, mutilated their bodies, dismembered their bodies, slaughtered 25 pregnant women, slaughtered 25 children, gathered those who remained alive, stripped them of their clothes, put them in open cars, and roamed them in the Jewish streets from Jerusalem, where they were mocked and insulted by Jewish settlers.
Palestinian historians believe that the victims of the massacre were no more than 100, and that the Jewish statistics deliberately inflated them, to spread terror in the hearts of the rest of the Palestinians in the neighboring villages to force them to flee their homes.
Among the details of the massacre is that "a Palestinian woman was about to give birth. They entered her, slit her stomach in the form of a cross, and took her bowels and her baby out and slaughtered him."
"The perpetrators of the massacre massacred 300 people without military justification or provocation of any kind, and they were old men, women, and babies," said the chief delegate of the Red Cross, Creech Jones.
Every year Palestinians commemorate the massacre of Deir Yassin (Al-Jazeera)
Did the Zionists admit responsibility for the massacre?
The Jewish Agency admitted that "splinter" Jewish organizations were responsible for the brutal massacre that had a sufficient effect for the emigration of many Palestinians from their villages and cities. Zionist propaganda exploited it in its psychological war against them by threatening them to meet the fate of Deir Yassin, given the horror it spread in their hearts.
Menachem Begin claimed that "the massacre helped open the way for further progress on the battlefield, reaching Tiberias and Haifa, so that all the cities that repelled the" Haganah "attacks were evacuated at night and fell without a fight, and their fall with the seizure of Qastal helped open the road to Jerusalem, In the rest of the region, the Arabs began to flee in fear before clashing with the Jewish forces, fearing to face the fate of Deir Yassin. "
He added, "This operation has unexpected, great results. After the news of Deir Yassin, the Arabs were terrified, and started fleeing in panic. We created terror among them and in all the villages nearby, and with one stroke we changed the strategic situation."
A year after the massacre committed, the Israelis "celebrated" the anniversary of the occupation of the village in the presence of their ministers and rabbis. In 1980 they rebuilt the village on the ruins of the original buildings, and named its streets the names of the perpetrators of the massacre.
Pictures of Palestinian martyrs remind of the gravity of the massacre committed by the Zionist gangs (Al-Jazeera)
How does Israel seek to conceal the documents of the massacre?
The Israeli security and military establishment continues to conceal the details of the massacre, despite demands by human rights organizations to publish their documents and pictures in the Israeli army archive, claiming that publishing them may harm Israel's foreign relations, even though the Israeli custom followed includes the disclosure of such documents 70 years after their events.
But Meir Bael - who is one of the Zionist intelligence men in charge of monitoring the massacre - admitted that "the Irgun and Stern forces carried out a massacre of all Palestinians, men, women, elderly and children. They took 25 men and put them in a truck that roamed the streets of Jerusalem" to celebrate the victory. "After the show ended, they were shot at. Nervous. "
As for the representative of the International Red Cross in Jerusalem, Jacques de Rainier - the most prominent witness to the massacre and the only foreigner who entered the village and documented his sightings - he described what he saw, saying that “most of the members of the two gangs were armed with weapons. The "cleansing team" assigned to finish off the wounded, and this was evidenced by the corpses stacked outside and inside homes.
Knowing that the new Israeli historians ’account of the massacre confirms the Palestinian and Arab narratives as stated in the writings of Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev, Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris, Mottie Golan, and others.
Activists from the Israeli "Remember" organization commemorate the Deir Yassin massacre (Al-Jazeera)
Why was Deir Yassin considered a point in the sea of Zionist massacres?
Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Deir Yassin massacre was not the first and not the last, but it was the most widely reported and covered by the media and the writings of researchers in various languages.
Palestinian historians counted the Zionist gangs carrying out 80 massacres and massacres during their occupation of 400 Palestinian villages and towns in 1948, that is, they carried out a massacre in one out of every 5 villages they occupied. Deir Yassin was not an exceptional event, but it is the most dangerous of the dozens of massacres, the most important of which is the town of Al-Sheikh. , Al-Khasas, Al-Ramah, Ain Zaitoun, Abu Shusha, Dahmash, and Tirat Haifa, Al-Dawayma, Eilaboun, and Assaf.
All the massacres carried out by the various Zionist gangs - including the Palmach, Haganah and Etzel - consisted of throwing explosives at the Palestinians and opening fire in all directions, as well as the use of blunt weapons without distinguishing between young men or the elderly or children and women. Some of them cut the heads of children with sticks. From the corpses, then they tore the women and men like flocks, and kept them without water or food, and they blew up the houses with those in them.