Deir Yassin Massacre (1948)

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where 117 villagers including women, elderly & children were slaughtered by Zionist Paramilitary groups. The first-hand accounts included a report of a "young fellow" tied to a tree and set on fire, a woman and an old man shot in back, and girls lined up against a wall and shot with a sub machine gun. Some members of the perpetrators were at a later time, absorbed into the IDF, one (Menachem Begin) became PM of Israel. He later stated in his book "Without what was done at Deir Yassin, there would not have been a state of Israel."
Deir Yassin Massacre (1948)

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