Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre, when hundreds of armed Zionist militiamen from the pre-1948 #Irgun and #Stern gangs committed one of the cruelest massacres in the history of Palestine.
On April 9, 1948, Zionist gangs raided the village of Deir Yassin, west of #Jerusalem, killing nearly 250 Palestinian civilians, mainly women, children and the elderly. Cases of rape, mutilation and humiliation were documented.
Of nearly 70 #massacres during the 1948 #Nakba, Deir Yassin would become one of those atrocities where almost all the acts of war criminality were unleashed: killing, destruction, pillaging, rape, and displacement.
#DeirYassin is a powerful symbol of Palestinian dispossession, as well as a historical fact that the occupying Israeli regime must confront when retelling its national narrative.
76 years ago Zionists attacked the Arab village of Deir Yassin in one of the most notorious massacres of the Nakba.
An israeli intelligence officer at the time admits that it was a completely peaceful village of only civilians that had signed peace treaties with neighboring Jewish villages.
To this day Israel refuses to release the pictures of the massacre, yet acknowledges it has them.
Israel's pre-state militia occupying the village of Deir Yassin, April 1948.
'They ran like cats,' related the commander of the operation, Yehoshua Zettler, the Jerusalem commander of Lehi, as he described the Arabs fleeing from their homes during the Deir Yassin massacre.