1948ک the Deir Yassin massacreک hundreds of Palestinians massacred in a single day

On April 9, 1948, those who stormed Deir Yassin mainly belonged to members of two extremist paramilitary groups, both linked to the right-wing Zionist movement and described as "Jewish terrorist organizations". The teams of Begin's Irgun and the Stern Gang entered at dawn attacking the village and murdering more than 250 (up to 350) of its inhabitants, among them women and children, they were led by Menachem Begin (the former prime minister of this regime) and Yitzhak Shamir (Begin's successor).

The village of Deir Yasin is located on the western heights overlooking the occupied Quds. This place dates back to the year 1517 and Ottoman rule. The population of this village in 1945 was approximately 610 people. Since 1942 the villagers have signed a non-aggression pact with the immigrant Jews. Furthermore, this village was located outside the areas designated by the United Nations for the Zionist regime.

According to the survivors of this crime, the attack on Diriasin began at three in the morning, and after resistance from the villagers, the Zionist terrorists asked for help and support from the Quds Haganah command. Then they attacked the village again with heavy weapons and killed men, women and children. The Zionists blew up the houses of the villagers one by one by throwing bombs and dynamite and thus took control of them. The attackers shot dozens of residents of Diriyasin village near the wall. They did not stop even with this level of crime and tied some villagers alive to the back of the car and drove them around the streets and neighborhoods of Quds chanting racist slogans.

According to the report of Mir Pael, a Hegana officer, people from Lahi and Irgun looted the properties of the villagers, including money, gold, sugar, radio, etc. There were also reports of several cases of rape of Palestinian women and girls, slashing of the womb of pregnant women, amputation of organs, gouging out of eyes and mutilation of corpses. All with the aim of instilling fear among Palestinians of other parts of Palestinian land and forcing them to migrate from their land.

"Yari Tzaban", a four-term member of the Israeli parliament, said in this regard that after the massacre he was sent to the village with the young brigadiers, but he did not see the body of any gunman, and therefore the Israelis' false story about the firefight between the men of the village and the police. The Israeli army, promoted for decades by the Zionists, is repelled. Ultimately, the Zionists threw the victims' mutilated bodies into the village's water well and closed the door to cover up their crimes.

Following the publication of the sad news of these crimes in Deir Yassin, the International Red Cross Society sent a representative to study the situation in this village. While walking among the ruins, the Red Cross representative noticed the bodies and severed limbs of the Arabs and came across the well where the bodies were buried. By his order all the bodies, mutilated in the most atrocious way, were taken out of the well.

Creating a wave of terror, the killing of Deir Yassin had a great impact on the migration of Palestinians to other areas of Palestine or to neighboring Arab countries. Thus, from an area of ​​Palestine with a population of 800,000, only about 150,000 remained and the rest moved away. This attack was so heinous that some of Israel's chief rabbis and prominent Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, condemned it. This is despite the fact that the British government, responsible until then for the custodianship of Palestinian land since World War I, did not react much to this murder and only sent one Jewish person to investigate.

Letter of protest from Albert Einstein to Stern and Ishaq Shamir after the Deir Yassin tragedy

After committing one of the darkest human tragedies at Deir Yassin, Menachem Begin and his accomplices celebrated the massacre at night in a Jewish town less than 5 kilometers from the crime scene to tell their wives and friends the details of their rapes and murders . After this crime, Begin became the head of the Horyut (now Likud) party and within three decades rose to the position of prime minister.

The documentary "Massacre of Deir Yassin Village", directed by Mrs. "Sahre Darbas", tells this inhuman tragedy from the words of some living witnesses. In this documentary, five Palestinian witnesses and two Zionist witnesses recount in detail the events of the Deir Yassin massacre. In this 75-minute documentary, a collection of archival images, as well as maps and reports from the International Red Cross are used to present a detailed picture of the village before its inhabitants emigrated and were dispersed to Palestinian refugee camps.