Aljazeera english news livestation6/18/2023 ![]() Under international law, all settlements built on Palestinian lands are illegal. In the early 1980s, the usurpation of the village’s lands continued, when the Haf Nof settlement was established. In 1949, the settlement Givat Shaul Bet was established on the ruins of Deir Yassin as an extension of the earlier settlement built in 1906. ![]() What used to be the city centre is now a bus station. Today, a psychiatric hospital stands on the remains of some village houses. The organisation catered to Deir Yassin orphans, and later to orphans from all over Palestine. On April 25, two weeks after the massacre, Hind founded Dar Al-Tifel Al-Arabi at her family’s mansion. Palestinian activist Hind al-Husseini, who was 31 at the time, found the orphans near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City. The massacre at the village – home to an estimated 750 residents who lived in the 144 houses, according to the Institute for Palestine Studies – became one of the most horrific events to have impacted the exodus of Palestinians.Īccording to Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to support the full right of return of Palestinians who were expelled during the creation of Israel, 55 young children were orphaned as a result of the massacre. Others were taken back to the village and killed. Some were then taken to a nearby quarry and executed. Those who were captured were rounded up and paraded through the Old City of Jerusalem by the Zionist forces. The New York Times reported at the time that half of the victims were women and children. The massacre took place in the once-prosperous village of Deir Yassin on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. On April 9, 1948, more than 110 Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered in one of the most heinous crimes carried out by Zionist forces. In 1949, an Israeli settlement by the same name was established on the village site. It was dotted with water springs, apple and olive trees, as well as grape vines. The village was eventually depopulated.īefore 1948, the village was known for being at an intersection that linked many urban centres, including Safad. The exact numbers of those killed are unclear, nor are there detailed accounts of the killings, according to All That Remains. The second massacre was perpetrated on October 30, when “mass murder” took place, according to Israel Galili, the former head of the Haganah National Staff. The New York Times reported at the time that 11 people were killed, five of them children, with 14 houses also destroyed. According to Khalidi’s book, on February 15, a Palmach force raided the village of Saasaa and detonated explosives inside several homes, destroying 10 houses and killing “tens”, according to Haganah estimates. ![]() Two massacres were carried out by the Haganah in 1948: One in mid-February and another at the end of October. Today the cemetery, which lies in what was renamed the Nesher township, is in a state of neglect. It was famous for the tomb of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preacher whose death in action against British forces sparked a revolt against the British occupation in 1936. By late April of that year, Zionist forces had occupied it.īefore the massacre, in 1945, the village was the second-largest in historical Palestine in terms of population. ![]() Several dozen houses were also destroyed during the attack.Īfter the massacre, on January 7, 1948, many families fled the village. According to the Haganah General Staff, two women and five children were also killed, with an additional 40 people injured. A force of 170 men from the Palmach (an elite force of the Haganah) fired their weapons and blew up houses, then pulled out adult males and shot them. The raiding militia’s orders were to kill as many adult males as possible. On December 31, 1947, the first large attack by the Haganah Zionist militia took place against the village of Balad al-Sheikh, east of the port city of Haifa, in which 60 to 70 Palestinians were killed, according to Walid Khalidi’s book, All That Remains. Here are five of the massacres that took place: Balad al-Sheikh Jewish Irgun, Haganah and Stern Gang militias committed a series of mass atrocities, including dozens of massacres. Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark a sombre occasion: the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) that befell Palestinians in the lead-up to and during 1948, when they were expelled from their historic and ancestral land by Zionist militias.ĭuring the Nakba, a mass expulsion ensued where hundreds of villages were depopulated, homes were destroyed, and thousands were killed.
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