Deir Yassin Remembered
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. Visit
http://www.deiryassin.org/
Runtime 32 Minutes