Theses massacres are by no means exhaustive, but they rebound the temperament
of the wit of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and manifest that massacres
and expulsions were not aberrations that happen in any war, but organized
atrocities with only one aim, that is to have a Zionist state which is 'goyim
rein' on the mausoleum of Palestinians.
YEHIDA MASSACRE
YEHIDA MASSACRE: 13 December 1947: men of the Arab village of Yehiday (near
Petah Tekva, the first Zionist settlement to be established) met at the local
coffee house when they saw what it looked to be four British Army patrols
entering the village. They were not suspicious as they were reassured by the
British of safety; especially that Jewish terrorists had murdered 12
Palestinians the previous day. The four cars stopped in front of the cafe house
and out stepped men dressed in khaki uniforms and steel helmets. However, it
soon became apparent that they did not come to protect the villagers. With
machine guns they sprayed bullets into the crowd gathered in the coffee house.
Some of the attackers placed bombs next to Palestinian homes while other
disguised terrorists tossed grenades at civilians here and there. For a while it
seemed as if the villagers would been annihilated. But soon a real British
patrol arrived to foil the well organized killing raid. The death toll of 7
Palestinian civilians could have been much higher. Earlier the same day 6
Palestinians were killed and 23 wounded when home made bombs were tossed at a
crowd of Palestinians standing near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. In Jaffa
another bomb killed six more Arabs and injured over 40.
KHISAS MASSACRE
KHISAS MASSACRE: 18 December 1947: Two carloads of Haganah terrorists drove through the village of Khisas (on the Lebanese Syrian border) firing machine guns and throwing grenades. 10 Palestinian civilians were killed in the raid.
QAZAZA MASSACRE
QAZAZA MASSACRE: 19 December 1947: Five Palestinian children were murdered in
cold blood when Jewish terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar
(Alderman).
AL-SHEIKH VILLAGE MASSACRE
AL-SHEIKH VILLAGE MASSACRE: 1 January 1948: On that night; around two hundred
Zionists armed with hand grenades and machine guns sneaked into this small
village (5km South East of Haifa). The attackers came through the southern hills
(most possibly from Nisher Jewish settlement which lies about 5KM/ 3 miles south
of the village). They attacked the houses on the edges of the village with hand
grenades and finished off with machine guns killing over 40 of the
Palestinians.
DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE
DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE: 9-10 April 1948: The massacre that became the symbol of
Zionist blood-thirst aggression and treachery of Zionists. The Mukhtar
(Alderman) of the village had agreed with the Zionists to provide information on
the movement of strangers in the area as well as other intelligence provided
their village is spared. The Zionists did not to keep their promise. In an
operation which was called Operation Unity, the Haganah cooperated with the
Irgun and the Stern Gang is this operation. At 4:30 am on Friday 9th April 1948,
Zionists surrounded the village which was overlooked by two Jewish settlements,
Givat Shaul and Montefiore. For two days Zionist terrorists killed men women and
children, raped women and stole their jewelry. A chilling account of the
massacre is given by a Red Cross doctor who arrived at the village on the second
day and saw himself -- the mopping up as one of the terrorists put it to him. He
says that the mopping gulp- had been done with machine guns, then grenades and
finished of with knives. Pregnant women's bellies were cut open and babies were
butchered in the hands of their helpless mothers. More than 250 people were
murdered in cold blood. Of them 25 pregnant women were bayoneted in the abdomen
while still alive. Fifty two children were maimed under the eyes of their own
mothers, and they were slain and their heads cut off. The Jewish Agency and the
commander of the British ground troops knew of the massacre while it was going
on, however, no one intervened to stop it.
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE: 13-14 April 1948, a contingent of Lehi and Irgun entered this village (near Tiberias) on the night of 13 April dressed as Palestinian fighters. Upon their entrance to the village the people went out to greet them, the terrorists met them with fire, killing every single one of them. Only 40 people survived. All the houses of the village were raised to the ground.
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE: 21 May 1948, after a number of failed attempts to occupy
this village, the Zionists mobilized a large contingent and surrounded the
village. The people of Beit Daras decided that women and children should leave.
As women and children left the village they were ambushed by the Zionist army
who massacred them despite the fact that they were only women and children
fleeing the fighting.
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE: 11 July 1948, after the Israeli 89th Commando Battalion lead by Moshe Dayan occupied Lydda, the Israelis told Arabs through loudspeakers that if they went into a certain mosque they would be safe. In retaliation for a hand grenade attack after the surrender that killed several Israeli soldiers, over one hundred Palestinians were massacred in the mosque, their bodies lay decomposing for 10 days in the mid-summer heat. The mosque still stands abandoned today. This massacre spread fear and panic among the Palestinian population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Zionist soldiers. Yitzhak Rabin, Brigade Commander then says: "There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march ten to fifteen miles to the point where they met up with the legion." Most of the 60,000 inhabitants of Lydda and Ramble came to refugee camps near Ramallah, around 350 lost their lives on the way through dehydration and sun strokes. Many survived by drinking their own urine. The conditions in the refugee camps were to claim more lives...
DAWAYMA MASSACRE
DAWAYMA MASSACRE: 29 October 1948, the following is the testimony of a
soldier who participated in the occupation of the village of Dawayma (in the
Haifa sub district): "They killed between 80 to 100 Arab men women and children.
To kill children they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one home
left without corpses .... One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women
into a building he was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself on
having raped an Arab women before shooting her to death...." The massacre was
perpetrated by the 89th Battalion, the authors of Lydda massacre.
SHARAFAT MASSACRE
SHARAFAT MASSACRE: 7 February 1951, Zionist soldiers crossed the armistice
line to this village (5KM/ 3 Miles from Jerusalem) and blew up the houses of the
Mukhtar (Alderman) and his neighbors. Ten Palestinians were killed (2 men, 3
women and 5 children) and 8 were wounded.
KIBYA MASSACRE
KIBYA MASSACRE: 14 October 1953, 9:30 PM, about 700 formal Israeli troops
attacked the border Jordanian village of Kibya, north west of Jerusalem. Using
mortars, machine guns, rifles and explosives they blew up 42 houses, the local
schools and the mosque. Every man woman and child found by these criminals was
killed. Seventy five innocent villagers were murdered in cold blood. The raids
were ordered by Ariel Sharon, the hero of Sabra and Shatila massacres.
KAFR QASEM MASSACRE
KAFR QASEM MASSACRE: 29 October 1956: Israeli Border guards (Ha-Mishmar
Gvool) started at 4:00 PM what they called a tour of the Triangle Villages. They
told the Mukhtars (Aldermen) of those villages that the curfew from that day
onwards was to start from 5:00 PM instead of the usual 6:00 PM. They reached
Kafr Qasem around 4:45 PM and informed the Mukhtar (Alderman) who protested that
there are about 400 villagers working outside the village and there is not
enough time to inform them of the new times. An officer assured him that they
will be taken care of. Then the guards waited at the entrance to the village.
Forty three of Kafr Qasem inhabitants were massacred in cold blood by the army
as they returned from work. Their crime was violating a curfew they did not know
about. On the northern entrance of the village, 3 more were killed and 2 were
killed inside of the village. The Zionist Lieutenant Danhan was touring the area
in his jeep reporting the massacre, on his wireless he said "minus 15 Arabs"
after a while his message on the radio to his H.Q. was "it is difficult to
count".
AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE
AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE: 13 November 1966, Israeli forces raided this village,
destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses in a
neighboring village. Eighteen people were killed and 54 wounded.
THE SABRA AND SHATILA MASSACRE
THE SABRA AND SHATILA MASSACRE: 15-18 September 1982, after the 1982 Israeli
invasion of Lebanon Phalangist puppets of the Israelis massacred over 3000
Palestinian men, women and children under the watchful eyes of the Israeli army
and using Israeli arms and bulldozers. A body count by the International
Committee of the Red Cross revealed 2750 dead, the real figure is thought to be
much higher and may never be known. In 1983, the Israeli government assign
supreme Justice Kahan whose investigation revealed the "indirect" involvement of
the Israeli troops and the hitherto defense minister Ariel Sharon in the
massacres.
OYON QARA MASSACRE
OYON QARA MASSACRE (RISHON LEZION): 20 May 1990: An Israeli soldier lined up
more than 20 Palestinian laborers and murdered seven of them with a sub-machine
gun. Thirteen more Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in subsequent
demonstrations to protest the massacre in various parts of the territories.
AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE
AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE: 8 October 1990, Israeli police opened fire on
worshipers in al-Aqsa mosque killing 22 people.
THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE: 25 February 1994, A Jewish terrorist, from
Kiryat Arba' settlement massacred 61 (29 on the scene) worshipers inside the
Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil (Hebron) and wounded about 200. Later massive
demonstrations took to the streets of Palestine and the Zionist army responded
by life ammunitions killing 23 and wounding hundreds more. Reports indicate
there were 3 Jewish settler gunners, not only one.
THE JABALIA MASSACRE
THE JABALIA MASSACRE: 28 March 1994, A Jewish undercover police opened fire
on Palestinian activists brutally killing 6 and injuring 49. Some of the wounded
activists were taken out of their cars and shot in their heads to death.
ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE
ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE: 17 July 1994, Palestinian sources reported that
the occupation forces had committed Sunday morning a disgusting massacre against
Palestinian workers at Eretz Checkpoint. Eyewitnesses and Israeli sources
reported that 11 Palestinians have been shot dead and 200 injured. Israeli
sources also reported that 21 Israeli soldiers including 1 settler were injured.
Two soldiers were shot by bullets, one died. As reported by Palestinian and
Israeli sources, the scene was described as a war zone which lasted for 6 hours.
Four Israeli tanks and helicopters were brought by the occupation forces, while
number of settlers were taken part firing at Palestinians. Protest had spread
all over the Occupied Territories. In Gaza, Palestinians raised black flags and
called for revenge. In Ramallah, shops closed while several clashes were
reported. Several clashes were reported at Hebron University yesterday, and
today two Palestinians were shot in Hebron.
These are just some of the massacres committed against the Palestinians by
the Zionists. If the raids on southern Lebanon old and new were to be taken
account the true magnitude of Zionist crimes against humanity could start to
emerge. If one were to go into the gruesome details of the atrocities committed
in 1948 the -mopping up operations -, the deliberate humiliation and massacre of
Arabs and the desecration of the holy places of both Muslim and Christian as
well as the looting of these holy places and personal property by the Israeli
army and settlers; one might just start to appreciate what Zionism is all
about.