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Event · Displacement9 April 1948
The Deir Yassin massacre
مجزرة دير ياسين
Exact day9 April 1948
Deir Yassin
On 9 April 1948 Zionist militias attacked Deir Yassin, a village west of Jerusalem, and killed around a hundred of its people, three quarters of them women, children and old men.
Connected people & places
- PersonHind al-HusseiniView relationship evidence ↗
Took in the children who fled the massacre, and founded the Home of the Arab Child for them
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
- PlaceDeir YassinLegacy context · not a reviewed claim
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The attack
On 4 April 1948 the Zionist leadership set Plan Dalet in motion, to take and empty the territory it designated. Days later, at dawn on 9 April, the Irgun and Lehi militias, with the support and involvement of the Haganah, attacked Deir Yassin, in the western outskirts of Jerusalem; the fighting went on until 11 April. The villagers resisted until their ammunition ran out.
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- The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948 ↗
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Sana Hammoudi)
Editorial paraphrase · enPlan Dalet was set in motion on 4 April; the Irgun and Lehi, with Haganah support, attacked Deir Yasin on 9 April 1948, with fighting until 11 April.
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The killing
The attackers killed men, women, children and old people, some in houses blown up with them inside. They falsely claimed to have killed 245; historians estimate around a hundred, three quarters of them women, children under fifteen and old men. About 150 villagers taken prisoner were loaded onto trucks, paraded through Jewish neighbourhoods and left on the edge of Arab ones.
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- The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948 ↗
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Sana Hammoudi)
Editorial paraphrase · enThe attackers claimed 245 dead; historical sources estimate around 100, three quarters women, children under 15 and old men; 150 prisoners were paraded on trucks.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
Account by Sana Hammoudi, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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9 April 1948 · day
04-09 · occurrence
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PersonHind al-Husseini participated in EventThe Deir Yassin massacre
Role: Took in the children who fled the massacre, and founded the Home of the Arab Child for them
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “They had fled from the village of Deir Yasin following the frightful massacre perpetrated in that village by Zionist terrorist groups.”
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