Wednesday April 9 marks the 66th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre which claimed the lives of a large number of native citizens west of Jerusalem in April 1948.

Wednesday April 9 marks the 66th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre which claimed the lives of a large number of native citizens west of Jerusalem in the aftermath of a brutal attack carried out by Irgun and Stern Gang forces in April 1948.

According to eyewitnesses 250 to 360 Palestinian civilians were callously massacred and attacked from close range in the process by Jewish fanatical groups triggering the mass flight of around 750 Palestinians who feared for their own lives before holding sway over the land.

The assault was abrasively conducted at about 0300 in the morning but the Zionist gangs were surprised by the unexpected shootings launched by native citizens which left 4 attackers dead and 32 wounded.

As a result the Zionist gangs summoned reinforcements and called Hagana forces to help in performing the takeover. Arbitrary shootings were launched on civilians by Zionist militias to whom neither sex nor age made a difference.

Jewish militias not only kept brutally shedding the villagers’ blood but took by force hundreds of civilians who were paraded through Jerusalem under a round of Jewish applauses before being taken back to Deir Yassin. The event represents one of the most notorious mass-murders ever witnessed by the Palestinian and world’s history. Breaches of international laws and treaties were just countless. 

A veteran news reporter said in a tone that reflected the unbelievably traumatic essence of the massacre: “I saw with my own eyes something that nobody not even a wild beast would dare commit. A girl was raped and tortured in front of her family by Zionist militias who cut off her breasts afterwards and threw her in fire.”

The Deir Yassin massacre was such a source of dread to native citizens and drove many Palestinians out of their native soil.

The Deir Yassin massacre came also as a result of the growing hatred between Palestinians and Jews in 1948 which reached its peak following Britain’s decision to withdraw all of its troops from Palestine leading to a state of an incomparable chaos.

In the summer of 1949 the village was re-populated by hundreds of Jewish immigrant families who settled near Deir Yassin in the so-called Givat Shaul Bet which makes part today of a mental health center.

Some of the homes located outside of the borders of the health center are used for residential or commercial profit. Many surviving carob and Almond trees along with the old cemetery bear the traces of the legendary Deir Yassin.