For example, the Deir Yassin massacre is considered to have generated more panic among the Arab population than all other previous operations together and to have caused a mass flight of Palestinians in numerous areas,[34][35] partly because the actual events at Deir Yassin were greatly embellished by the media. The attack began as the children were asleep in their mothers and fathers, arms. This was the reason they chose a peaceable, unarmed village, since. The corpses were scattered all over, As for me, I ran back to our house and got into the bathtub. But the hands and feet of the victims protruded from the debris. 11) List of massacres in India. 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel-Aviv. They are more than official colleagues. unawares, destroying their homes and burning them down on top of those inside, thereby making clear to the entire world to what depths of barbarism Zionist had, sunk. Sheikh Ibrahim Abdeen, the imam of the mosque, says that the bullets were coming For Palestinians, Nakba is not a historical event, it is a continuing process of displacement that has never stopped. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Residents gathered to cheer the men, thinking Arab volunteer fighters had returned. Yohmor Massacre : March 10 1998 :Israeli Occupied West Bank, March 10Israeli soldiers opened fire with automatic A large Arab force then ambushed the convoy, and, in the fight, several vehicles were shot up, and couldn't withdraw. . Israels military occupation of Palestine remains at the core of this decades-long conflict that continues to shape every part of Palestinians lives. Home News Random Article Install Wikiwand Send a suggestion Uninstall Wikiwand Upgrade to Wikiwand 2.0 Then he added, the muezzin announced the As the terrorists withdrew, they started shooting at the houses in the neighborhood. to the base for the UN Fayjiya peace-keeping forces. Below are some of the details of the most notorious massacres committed at the hands of Haganah and its armed wing, the Palmach, as well as the Stern Gang, the Irgun and other Zionist. The attackers, disguised as milkmen, carried the explosives in milk containers, placed them in the basement of the Hotel and ran away. Thirteen years old, she was the only survivor out of her entire family (her father, her mother, her grandfather and all her brothers and sisters were killed). Blood was flowing everywhere, all over the wide steps, and had stained the white tile the length of the broad courtyard, as well as the doors of both mosques. A number of young men were able to get over to where the attacker was, and to protect others in the mosque with their bodies. The poorly armed inhabitants showed unexpected resistance to the attack by fighting back. Then, suddenly the sound of bombing rang out. 3/11/1956 (Palestine): Another massacre is committed on November 3, 1956 when the Israelis occupy the town of Khan Yunis and the adjacent refugee camp. List of massacres in Hungary. Worshippers who had been prostrate, tried to flee in terror, and some of them fell on the floor. Then he adds, I shouted at, the top of my lungs to the soldiers to come and stop him, but all they did was run, away. The Irgun had conceived a plan for the King David attack early in 1946, but the green light was given only on July first. All were wearing European clothes, 9/4/1948(Palestine): The forces of the Zionist gangs Tsel, Irgun and Hagana, fitted out with the Zionist terrorist strategy of killing civilians in order to achieve their aspirations, began stealing into the village on the night of April 9, 1948. more than 24 deaths and injured hundreds of others. 24 by bomb in Arab market in Suk Quarter of Haifa and 4 by bomb in Arab vegetable market in Jerusalem. The attack began with concentrated, indiscriminate artillery Lebanese families were living in the buildings. [1][pageneeded]. [55], Morris's analysis concludes that the documentation and the interviews do not prove that a massacre occurred but that the hypothesis cannot be simply dismissed. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. British, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Armenians; senior officers, police, my orderly, my chauffeur, messengers, guards, men and. However, they werent allowed to visit the site until a day after the, time they had requested. Four civilians killed. The Carmel Market was also attacked and grenades were thrown in the Jewish quarters. It was followed by the whiz of bullets passing over the heads of the, worshippers. Talal Abu Sunayna, who was shot in both shoulders, adds, I saw a, settler hiding behind one of the pillars in the mosque as he fired on the worshippers, with his rifle. The walls of the two mosques had long, crimson lines etched onto, them by bleeding hands, and blood had stained the white uniforms of the woman. 26/10/1948 (Lebanon) :Houla is located in southern Lebanon, only a few kilometers from the Israeli border. resistance, but the refugees state that all resistance had ceased when the Israelis arrived and that all of the victims were unarmed civilians. 4 members of a Jewish family, 3 children, shot dead by Arabs who broke into their home in. According to Morris, at the Dahmash mosque some prisoners tried to break out and escape, probably fearing to be massacred. profound sympathy with the relatives of the killed and with those injured in this dastardly outrage., January 30-31, 1947(Palestine) : This massacre took place following an argument which broke out between Palestinian workers and Zionists in the Haifa Petroleum Refinery, leading to the deaths of a number of Palestinians and wounding and killing approximately sixty Zionists. Israels military control over the Palestinian people affects every aspect of their lives, from what services they can access and where they can travel to whom they can marry and where they can live. used in an attempt to bury the bodies and cover up the aftermath of the massacre. [1] [page needed] List of killings and massacres committed in Mandate Palestine See also According to data compiled by OCHA, between 2009 and 2022, at least 8,413 Palestinian-owned structures were demolished by Israeli forces, displacing at least 12,491 people. Or be expelled from the UN. He says, I heard people 0117 hours, Urban. When the shooting stopped, the soldiers, came pouring into the mosque. Adloun Massacre :17/3/1978 (Lebanon): At Adloun on march 17, two cars carrying 8 passengers came under Israeli fire while they were on their way to Beirut. Injures: 84 The attackers, disguised as milkmen, carried the explosives in milk containers, placed them in the basement of the Hotel and ran away. The court found Major Meilinki and Lt. Daham guilty of killing 43 people and sentenced the former to 17 years and the latter to 15 years. Period. All available information so far is to the effect that they were Jews. A first shell, then a second fell near the, shelter, and as we were trying to get out, another shell hit the shelter directly. Then he turned into a butcher, and grabbed, a knife and ripped open her stomach to take out the slaughtered child with his, iniquitous Nazi knife.10 In another location in the village, Hanna Khalil, a girl at the, time, saw a man unsheathing a large knife and ripping open the body her neighbor, Jamila Habash from head to toe. One of them came to Palestine only in 1947. Casualty figures from. 17 July 1994, Palestinian sources reported that the occupation forces had committed Sunday morning a disgusting massacre against Palestinian workers at Eretz checkpoint. Seven Palestinian workers were killed, 16 Palestinians were wounded. On October 29 Palestine): the Israeli army brutally massacred about 100 women and children, precipitating a massive flight of people from that village on the western side of the Hebron mountains. Haganah terrorists made a most barbarous attack at one oclock in the early morning of Mondayat the Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon section of Jerusalem, killing innocent people and wounding many. The day after the vote, Arabs launched attacks against the Jews, killing 126 of them during the first two weeks and 75 were massacred in a refugee camp in Aden as a retaliation. Required fields are marked *. Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and unarmed soldiers. She related to a Lebanese officer, saying, We stayed in the shelter until really late on Thursday night, but then I decided to leave with my girl friend because we couldnt breathe anymore. The Anchor Press. "It can therefore be asked whether the 'human bomb' offensive starting with the Passover massacre on 27 March 2002" Brigitte L. Nacos, "The Terrorist Calculus Behind 911: A Model for Future Terrorism?" Concerning the "principle of purity of arms", he stressed that: "The end does not justify all means. including 27 women, 29 men and 4 children.31. Following the armistice agreement between Lebanon and Israel in 1949, village residents returned to find their houses in rubbles and their farms burnt. They confiscated property and livestock. withdrew to the bases from which they had begun.16 There was a particular sight the Itamar Radai, Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948: A Tale of Two cities, 2015, Efraim Karsh, The Arab-Israeli conflict: The Palestine war 1948 ,2008, Larry Collins/Dominique Lapierre, 'O Jerusalem'.History Book Club Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Arab League chief Azzam Pasha stated that 'The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the most important factor for sending [in] the Arab armies'.[38]. As a result of the explosion the whole building collapsed with its residents. The, statement called upon Jews to participate in this march since, according to the, statement, it would involve the decisive act of placing the foundation stone for what is, called the Third Temple. In addition, the founder of the organization, Ghershoun, Salmoun, announced that the Arab-Islamic occupation of the temple area must, come to an end, and the Jews must renew their profound ties to the sacred area., The march, in which 200,000 Jews took part, headed toward al-Aqsa Mosque in, order for the foundation stone of the so-called Third Temple to be put in place.43, At the same time, that is, at 10:00 a.m. and a half-hour before the beginning of the, massacre, Israeli occupation forces began placing military barriers along various. From the beginning of the Zionist invasion of Lebanon, the Zionists and their agents were working toward being able to extirpate the Palestinian presence in Lebanon. 21 May 1948(Palestine): after a number of failed attempts to occupy this village, the Zionists mobilized a large contingent and surrounded the village. At age 109, Fletcher is releasing a . [1] He considers too that belligerents behaved reasonably well and that the "1948 [war] is noteworthy for the relatively small number of civilian casualties both in the battles themselves and in the atrocities that accompanied them" in comparison, for example, "with the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s or the Sudanese civil wars of the past fifty years". The conditions in the refugee camps were to claim more lives. A description of the massacre of the Semiramis Hotel from the United Nations Documents follows, as well as the Palestinian Police report on the crime sent to the Colonial Office in London: and the elderly.9. [1], Morris also said that despite their rhetoric, Arab armies committed few atrocities and no large-scale massacre of prisoners took place when circumstances might have allowed them to happen, as when they took the Old City of Jerusalem or the villages of Atarot, Neve Yaakov, Nitzanim, Gezer and Mishmar Hayarden. No surprise, then, that the Zionist leadership quickly welcomed it. 9). Maaraka Massacres:5/3/1985(Lebanon): The occupation forces planted an explosive device in the Husseinieh building of the town .It was detonated during the distribution of aid to the citizens who lost their lives. I was waiting for my turn to die in cold blood as I saw the men drop in front of me. After the Israelis withdrew from Gaza under American pressure, a mass grave, was unearthed at Khan Yunis in March 1957. The recently proclaimed Israeli government consented to his appointment because, as president of the Swedish Red Cross, he saved 15,000 Jews from the Nazi Camps during WW2. For massacres that took place during the 1948 Palestine War, see Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War. During the ensuing confusion, a charge was placed in the building and it exploded about one minute later, completely demolishing half the hotel. She related to a Lebanese officer, saying, We stayed in the shelter until really late on Thursday night, but then I decided to leave with my girl friend because we couldnt breathe anymore. For massacres that took place prior to the name Palestine being adopted, seeList of massacres in ancient Israel. away. sudden we heard the sound of heavy gun fire coming from behind us. The following is a text of a cable by the High Commissioner for Palestine to the Colonial Office about the massacre: But all he did was beat me up, then I left the mosque area.52, Eye witnesses who survived the massacre say, We heard the sound of a muffled, explosion. The Hebrew press wrote about a mistake? and a misfortune , when it mentioned the victims, and it was difficult to tell whom it meant. Other forces pursued their victims funeral, processions as far as the cemetery gates, where they killed still more. mosque, the village school and the water tank which supplied it with water. 17 British officers killed, during raid and explosion. heinous massacre carried out against worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque led to They gathered up as much as they could of the victims dismembered corpses, threw them in the village well, then closed it up. For massacres that . If this massacre had taken place in World War II, they would have been sentenced to death for their criminal responsibility along with the terrorists who placed the explosives. children with me. [1], The causes of the massacres are a matter of controversy among New Historians. 3 Jewish forces casualties. If the raids on southern Lebanon old and new were to be taken into account the true magnitude of Zionist crimes against humanity could start to emerge. The soldiers, [Israeli] intelligence men and Jewish settlers resorted to firing live ammunition in the, form of a continuous spray of machine-gun fire which came from all directions and in, a well planned and coordinated fashion. In Jerusalem, attacks targeted Jewish businesses and residents of Jewish neighborhoods, some of whom were stabbed in the street or murdered on buses. The following is a text of a cable by the High Commissioner for Palestine to the Colonial Office about the massacre: Jerusalem. soldiers began beating many of them as they left. And thus began the, second chapter of this terrorist massacre at the hands of terrorist settler Baroukh, Goldstein and his helpers. The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Palestinian territories since 1967. At the, end of the tour, the men were brought to a stone quarry located between Tahawwuat, Shawul and Dair Yasin, where they were shot in cold blood. mukhtar, and when the Israeli forces discovered them they were told to come out, line up, and begin walking. More than 110 men, women and children were killed by members of the pre-Israeli-state Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist militias. This has meant the population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem is growing faster than the Israeli population of Israel. massacre, Israeli occupation forces began placing military barriers along various roads leading to Jerusalem in order to prevent Palestinians from getting to the city. during the Palestine Mandate or of the Government of Israel thereafter. Lehi detonated a truck bomb outside National Committee building, killing 26 and injuring hundreds. 48 Arabs, 47 Jews killed; 140 Jews, 73 Arabs wounded. The Israeli Army surrounded the camps, providing the murderers with all the support, aid and facilities necessary for them to carry out their appalling crime. 1,400 Years of Islamic Aggression: An Analysis Party, posed a question in the House of Commons to Prime Minister Atlee of the Labor Party, asking the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the bomb outrage at the British Headquarters in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister responded: List of massacres in Great Britain. as well. first-aid workers. In the statement the organization announced, that it intended to stage a march to the Temple Mount (or so they call it). Hence, this, heinous massacre carried out against worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque led to. ammunition. 38 people were killed on bus. Lebanese forces under the leadership of Ilyas Haqiba, head of the kataib intelligence apparatus and with the approval of the Zionist Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon and the Commander of the Northern District, General Amir Dawri.