Description
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of
the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir
Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay
outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish
State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground
in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated
for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force,
the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and
the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.
In all
over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered.
Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of
the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought
behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the
Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.
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