As Israel attempts to portray itself as a victim, the truth is it is their attempt to cover the heinous crimes they are guilty of. It is unfortunate the US media fails to reference the atrocities Israel has committed, as they do the Holocaust, and those they continue to commit on a daily basis against the innocent Palestinian civilian population.
Please note
that the list of massacres below is not exclusive
of the massacres committed at the hands of
Israeli state sponsored terrorism from its
inception.
These are just some of the massacres committed against the Palestinians and Lebanese by the Zionists. 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. If one were to go into the gruesome details of the atrocities committed in 1948, the mopping up operations, the deliberate humiliation and massacres of Arabs and the desecration and looting of the holy places of both Muslim and Christian by the Israeli army and settlers; one might just start to appreciate what Zionism is all about.
King David Massacre
The King David Hotel explosion of July 22, 1946 (Palestine), which resulted in the deaths of 92 British, Arabs and Jews, and in the wounding of 58, was not just an act of "Jewish extremists," but a premeditated massacre conducted by the Irgun in agreement with the highest Jewish political authorities in Palestine-- the Jewish Agency and its leader, David-Ben-Gurion.
According to Yitshaq Ben-Ami, a Palestinian Jew who spent 30 years in exile after the establishment of Israel investigating the crimes of the "ruthless clique heading the internal Zionist movement," the Irgun had conceived a plan for the King David attack early in 1946, but the green light was given only on July first. According to Dr. Sneh, the operation was personally approved by Ben-Gurion, from his self-exile in Europe. Sadeh, the operations officer of the Haganah, and Giddy Paglin, the head of the Irgun operation under Menachem Begin agreed that thirty-five minutes advance notice would give the British time enough to evacuate the wing, without enabling them to disarm the explosion.
The Jewish Agency's motive was to destroy all evidence the British had gathered proving that the terrorist crime waves in Palestine were not merely the actions of "fringe" groups such as the Irgun and Stern Gang, but were committed in collusion with the Haganah and Palmach groups and under the direction of the highest political body of the Zionist establishment itself, namely the Jewish Agency.
That so many innocent civilian lives were lost in the King David massacre is a normal part of the pattern of the history of Zionist outrages: A criminal act is committed, allegedly by an isolated group, but actually under the direct authorization of the highest Zionist authorities, whether of the Jewish Agency
during the Palestine Mandate or of the Government of Israel thereafter.
The following is a statement made in the House of Commons by then British Prime Minister Clement Attlee:
On July 22, 1946, one of the most dastardly and cowardly crimes in recorded history took place. We refer to the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Ninety-two persons lost their lives in that stealthy attack, 45 were injured, among whom there were many high officials, junior officers and office personnel, both men and women. The King David Hotel was used as an office housing the Secretariat of the Palestine Government and British Army Headquarters. The attack was made on 22 July at about 12 o'clock noon when offices are usually in full swing. The attackers, disguised as milkmen, carried the explosives in milk containers, placed them in the basement of the Hotel and ran away.
The Chief Secretary for the Government of Palestine, Sir John Shaw, declared in a broadcast: "As head of the Secretariat, the majority of the dead and wounded were my own staff, many of whom I have known personally for eleven years. They are more than official colleagues. British, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Armenians; senior officers, police, my orderly, my chauffeur, messengers, guards, men and
women-- young and old-- they were my friends.
"No man could wish to be served by a more industrious, loyal and honest group of ordinary decent people. Their only crime was their devoted, unselfish and impartial service to Palestine and its people. For this they have been rewarded by cold-blooded mass murder."
The King David Hotel massacre shocked the conscience of the civilized world. On July 23, Anthony Eden, leader of the British opposition Conservative 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:
"…it appears that, after exploding a small bomb in the street, presumably as a diversionary measure-- this did virtually no damage-- a lorry drove up to the tradesmen's entrance of the King David Hotel and the occupants, after holding up the staff at pistol point, entered the kitchen premises carrying a number of milk cans. At some stage of the proceedings, they shot and seriously wounded a British soldier who attempted to interfere with them. All available information so far is to the effect that they were Jews. Somewhere in the basement of the hotel they planted bombs which went off shortly afterwards. They appear to have made good their escape. Every effort is being made to identify and arrest the perpetrators of this outrage. The work of rescue in the debris, which was immediately organized, still continues. The next-of-kin of casualties are being notified by telegram as soon as accurate information is available. The House will wish to express their profound sympathy with the relatives of the killed and with those injured in this dastardly outrage."
Baldat
al-Sheikh Massacre:
January 30-31, 1947: 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. A large
number of the Palestinian Arab workers were
living in Baldat al-Sheikh and Hawasa, located
in the southeast of Haifa. Consequently, the
Zionists planned to take revenge on behalf
of fellow Zionists who had been killed in
the refinery by attacking Baldat al-Sheikh
and Hawasa. On the night of January 30-31,
1947, a mixed force composed of the First
Battalion of Palmakh and the Carmelie brigade
(estimated at approximately 150 to 200 Zionist
terrorists) launched a raid against the two
towns under the leadership of Hayim Afinu'am.]
They focused their attack on the outskirts
of Baldat al-Sheikh and Hawasa. Taking the
outlying homes by surprise as their inhabitants
slept, they pelted them with hand grenades,
then went inside, firing their machine guns.
The terrorist attack led to the deaths of
approximately sixty citizens inside their
homes, most of them women, elderly and children.
The attack lasted for an hour, after which
the Zionists withdrew at 2:00 a.m., having
attacked a large number of noncombatant homes.
According to a report written by the leader
of the terrorist operation, "the attacking
units slipped into the town and began working
on the houses. And due to the fact that gunfire
was directed inside the rooms, it was not
possible to avoid injuring women and children."
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Yehida
Massacre
December 13, 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 a British Army patrol enter the village. They felt reassured especially since 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. It soon became apparent that they had not come to protect the villagers. With machine guns they sprayed bullets into the crowd gathered in the coffee house. Some of the invaders placed bombs next to Arab homes while other disguised terrorists tossed grenades at civilians. For a while it seemed as if the villagers would be annihilated but soon a real British patrol arrived to foil the well organized killing raid. The death toll of 7 Arab civilians could have been much higher. Earlier the same day 6 Arabs were killed and 23 wounded when home made bombs were tossed at a crowd of Arabs standing near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. In Jaffa another bomb killed six more Arabs and injured 40.
Khisas
Massacre
December 18, 1947: Two carloads of Haganah terrorists drove through the village of Khisas (on the Lebanese Syrian border) firing machine guns and throwing grenades. 10 Arab civilians were killed in the raid.
Qazaza
Massacre
December 19, 1947: 5 Arab children were murdered when Jewish terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar (town elder/alderman).
Semiramis Hotel Massacre
January 5, 1948: The Jewish Agency escalated their terror campaign against Palestinian Arabs.
They decided to perpetrate a wholesale massacre by bombing the Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon section of Jerusalem, in order to drive out the Palestinians from Jerusalem. The massacre of the Semiramis Hotel on January 5, 1948, was the direct responsibility of Jewish Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and Haganah leaders Moshe Sneh and Yisrael Galili.
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:
January 5, 1948. Haganah terrorists made a most barbarous attack at one o'clock in the early morning of Monday…at the Semiramis Hotel in the Katamon section of Jerusalem, killing innocent people and wounding many. The Jewish Agency terrorist forces blasted the entrance to the hotel by a small bomb and then placed bombs in the basement of the building. As a result of the explosion the whole building collapsed with its residents. As the terrorists withdrew, they started shooting at the houses in the neighborhood. Those killed were: Subhi El-Taher, Moslem; Mary Masoud, Christian; Georgette Khoury, Christian; Abbas Awadin, Moslem; Nazira Lorenzo, Christian; Mary Lorenzo, Christian; Mohammed Saleh Ahmed, Moslem; Ashur Abed El Razik Juma, Moslem; Ismail Abed El Aziz, Moslem; Ambeer Lorenzo, Christian; Raof Lorenzo, Christian; Abu Suwan Christian family, seven members, husband, wife, and five children.
Besides those killed, 16 more were wounded, among them women and children. The following is a text of a cable by the High Commissioner for Palestine to the Colonial Office about the massacre: Jerusalem. 0117 hours, Urban. At approximately 0117 hours, a grenade was thrown into the Semiramis Hotel, Katamon Quarter, causing superficial damage but no casualties. During the ensuing confusion, a charge was placed in the building and it exploded about one minute later, completely demolishing half the hotel. Witnesses have stated that the perpetrators arrived by way of the Upper Katamon Road in two taxis. Four persons are reported to have alighted from the first taxi, and one person, who apparently covered the main party, from the second. All were wearing European clothes…
Massacre at Deir Yasin
September 4, 1948: The forces of the Zionist gangs Tsel, Irgun and Hagana, outfitted with the Zionist terrorist strategy of killing civilians in order to achieve their aspirations, raided the village on the night of April 9, 1948. Their purpose was to uproot the Palestinian people from their land by raiding the unsuspecting inhabitants of the village, destroying their homes and burning them down with families inside. The attack began as the villagers were sleeping. In the words of Menachim Begin (former leader of Israel) as he described events, "the Arabs fought tenaciously in defense of their homes, their women and their children." The fighting proceeded from house to house, and whenever the Jews occupied a house, they would blow it up, then direct a call to the inhabitants to flee or face death. Believing the threat, the people left in terror in hopes of saving their children and women. But what the Stern and Irgun gangs did was fire upon whoever fell within range of their weapons. Then, in a picture of barbarism the likes of which humanity has rarely witnessed except on the part of the most depraved, the terrorists began throwing bombs inside the houses in order to bring them down on whoever was inside. The orders they had received were for them to destroy every house. To ensure there were no survivors, the Stern and Irgun terrorists murdered whoever was found alive. The explosions continued in the same barbaric fashion until the afternoon of April 10, 1948. They then gathered the civilians who were still alive, stood them up in front of the walls and fired upon them assassination style. About twenty-five men were brought out of the houses, loaded onto a truck and led on a "victory tour" in the neighborhood of Judah Mahayina and Zakhroun Yousif. At the end of the tour, the men were brought to a stone quarry located between Tahawwu'at Shawul and Dair Yasin, where they were murdered in cold blood. Then the Etsel and Layhi "fighters" brought the women and the children who had managed to survive to the Mendelbaum Gate. Finally, a Hagana unit came and dug a mass grave in which it buried 250 Arab corpses, most of them women, children and the elderly.
A woman who survived the massacre by the name of Halima Id describes what happened to her sister. She says, "I saw a soldier grabbing my sister, Saliha al-Halabi, who was nine months pregnant. He pointed a machine gun at her neck, then emptied its contents into her body. 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." 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. Then he murdered their neighbor Fathi in the same way at the entranceway to the house. A 40-year-old woman named Safiya describes how she was come upon by a man who suddenly opened up his trousers and pounced on her. "I began screaming and wailing. But the women around me were all meeting the same fate. After that they tore off our clothes so that they could fondle our breasts and our bodies with gestures too horrible to describe." Some of the soldiers cut off women's ears in order to get at a few small earrings. Once news of the massacre had gotten out, a delegation from the Red Cross tried to visit the village; however, they weren't allowed to visit the site until a day after the
time they had requested. Meanwhile the Zionists tried to cover up the evidence of their crime. They gathered up as much as they could of the victims' dismembered corpses, threw them in the village well and attempted to seal it. They went to the extent of attempting to change landmarks in the area so that the Red Cross representative wouldn't be able to find his way to the sealed well. He did find his way to the well however and located 150 maimed corpses belonging to women, children and the elderly. In addition to the bodies which were found in the well, scores of others had been buried in mass graves while still others remained strewn over street corners and in the ruins of houses. Afterwards, the head of the terrorist Hagana gang which had taken part in burying the Palestinian civilians wrote saying that his group had not undertaken a military operation against armed men, the reason being that they wanted to plant fear in the Arabs' hearts. This was the reason they chose a peaceful, unarmed village, with the hopes of spreading fear and terror among the Arabs, forcing them to flee.
Naser
Al-Diner Massacre
April 13-14, 1948: a contingent of Lehi and Irgon entered this village (near Tiberias) on the evening of April 13th dressed as Arabs. Upon their entrance to the village as people were greeting them, the terrorists began firing indiscriminately, murdering the all in the village, leaving only 40 survivors. All the houses of the village were raised to the ground.
The
Tantura Massacre
May 15, 1948: "From testimonies and information I got from Jewish and Arab witnesses and from soldiers who were there, at least 200 people from the village of Tantura were killed by Israeli troops... "
"From the numbers, this is definitely one of the biggest massacres," Teddy Katz an Israeli historian said Tantura, near Haifa in northern Palestine, had 1,500 residents at the time. It was later demolished to make way for a parking lot for a nearby beach and the Nahsholim kibbutz, or cooperative farm.
Fawzi Tanji, now 73 and a refugee at a camp in the West Bank, is from Tantura he said:
I was 21 years old then. They took a group of 10 men, lined them up against the cemetery wall and killed them. Then they brought another group, killed them, threw away the bodies and so on, Tanji said. I was waiting for my turn to die in cold blood as I saw the men drop in front of me.
Katz said other Palestinians were killed inside their homes and in other parts of the village. At one point, he said, soldiers shot at anything that moved.
Beit
Daras Massacre
May 21, 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 met by the Zionist army who massacred them despite the fact that they could see they were women and children fleeing the fighting.
The
Dahmash Mosque Massacre
July 11, 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, 80-100 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 Arab population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Israeli soldiers. Yetzak 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 Lyda and Ramble came to refugee camps near Ramallah, around 350 lost their lives on the way through dehydration and sun stroke. Many survived by drinking their own urine. The conditions in the refugee camps were to claim more lives.
Dawayma
massacre
October 29, 1948: 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. Mr. Walid Khalidi, author of All That Remains, says that the Palestinian inhabitants at Dawayma faced one of the larger Israel massacres, though today it is among the least well-known.
The following are excerpts of a description of the massacre published in the
Israeli daily 'Al ha Mishmar, quoted in All That Remains:
"The children they killed by breaking their heads with sticks. There was not a house without dead…one commander ordered a sapper to put two old women in a certain house…and to blow up the house with them. The sapper refused…the commander then ordered his men to put in the old women and the evil deed was done. One soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her..."
A former mukhtar of Dawayma interviewed in 1984 by the Israeli daily Hadashot, also quoted by Mr. Khalidi, offered another description:
"The people fled, and everyone they saw in the houses, they shot and killed. They also killed people in the streets. They came and blew up my house, in the presence of eye-witnesses...the moment that the tanks came and opened fire, I left the village immediately. At about half-past ten, two tanks passed the Darawish Mosque. About 75 old people were there, who had come early for Friday prayers. They gathered in the mosque to pray. They were all killed."
About 35 families had been hiding in caves outside Dawayma, according to the mukhtar, and when the Israeli forces discovered them they were told to come out, line up, and begin walking. "And as they started to walk, they were shot by machine guns from two sides…we sent people there that night, who collected the bodies, put them into a cistern, and buried them," the mukhtar told the Israeli daily.
Houla
Massacre
October 26, 1948: Houla is located in southern Lebanon, only a few kilometers from the Israeli border. When Arab volunteers gathered to liberate Palestine from the Israeli occupation, they established their headquarters in Houla, on hills overlooking Palestine.
The force was successful in fending off major attacks on Lebanese villages, but the fighters suddenly withdrew on October 26, 1948. Jewish militants attacked the town to avenge the residents' support of Arab resistance forces.
On October 31, Jewish militants dressed in traditional Arab attire entered the border village. Residents gathered to cheer the men, thinking Arab volunteer fighters had returned. They were wrong. The militants rounded up 85 people and detained them in a number of houses, firing live ammunition at the civilians and killing all but three as they blew up the houses with dead corpses inside. They confiscated property and livestock.
The three who survived the massacre, along with residents of other towns fled to Beirut. Following the armistice agreement between Lebanon and Israel in 1949, village residents returned to find their houses in ruin and their farms burnt. Houla remains under Israeli occupation today, and has suffered the brunt of Israeli animosity towards Lebanon. Only 1,200 out of 12,000 people remain in the village. The Houla massacre was one of a series of massacres committed by Israel against Lebanese civilians.
Salha
Massacre
1948 (Lebanon): After forcing the population together in the mosque of the village, the occupation forces ordered then to face the wall, then started shooting them from behind until the mosque was turned into bloodbath, 105 person were murdered.
Sharafat
Massacre
February 7, 1951: Israeli soldiers crossed the armistice line to this village (5Km from Jerusalem) and blew up the houses of the Mukhtar and his neighbors. Ten were killed (2 elderly men, 3 women and 5 children) and 8 were wounded.
Qibya Massacre (Justin, this is the massacre with
the picture of the old lady I was speaking
of) October 14-15, 1953: This village was
the object of a brutal Israeli attack which
was carried out by units from the regular
Israeli Army as part of a pre-meditated plan
and in which a variety of weapon types were
used. On the evening of October 14, an Israeli
military force estimated at about 600 soldiers
moved toward the village. Upon arrival, it
surrounded and isolated it from the neighboring
villages.
The attack began with concentrated, indiscriminate artillery fire on the homes. This continued until the main force reached the outskirts of the village. Meanwhile, other forces headed for nearby Arab towns such as Shuqba, Badrus and Na'lin in order to distract them and prevent any aid from reaching the people in Qibya. They also planted mines on various roads so as to isolate the village completely. As units of the Israeli infantry were attacking the village residents, units of military engineers were placing explosives around some of the houses in the village and blowing them up with everyone in them under the protection of the infantrymen, who fired on everyone attempting to flee. These acts of brutality continued until 4:00 a.m., October 15, 1953, at which time the enemy forces withdrew to the bases from which they had begun.
There was a particular sight, the memory of which remained in the minds of all who saw it: an Arab woman sitting on a pile of debris and casting a forlorn look into the sky. From beneath the rubble one could see small legs and hands which were the remains of her six children, while the bullet-maimed body of her husband lay in the road before her.
This vicious terrorist attack resulted in the destruction of 56 houses, the village mosque, the village school and the water tank which supplied it with water. Moreover, 67 citizens lost their lives, both men and women, with many others wounded. Terrorist Ariel Sharon, the commander of the "101" unit which undertook the terrorist aggression, stated that his leaders' orders had been clear with regard to how the residents of the village were to be dealt with. He says, "The orders were utterly clear: Qibya was to be an example to everyone."
Kufr Qasem Massacre
October 29, 1956: the day on which Israel launched its assault on Egypt, units of Israeli Frontier guards 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, and that the inhabitants are ordered to stay home. The Mukhtars (Aldermen) protested that there were about 400 villagers working outside the village and there was not enough time to inform them of the new times. An officer assured him that they will be taken care of.
Meanwhile, the officers positioned themselves at the village entrance. At about 4:55 pm, unaware of the ambush awaiting them, the innocent farmers started flocking in after a hard day of work. The Israeli soldiers started stepping out of their military trucks and ordered the villagers to line up. Then the officer in charge ordered their murders and the soldiers riddled the bodies of the Palestinian villagers with bullets in cold blood. With the massacre practically over, the soldiers moved around finishing off whoever still had a pulse in him.
The government of Israel took great pains to hide the truth, but after the investigation was concluded, Ben Gurion, the Israeli Prime Minister, announced that some people in the Triangle had been injured by the Frontier guards. The press also was part of the conspiracy to cover up the incident. The Hebrew press wrote about a "mistake" and a "misfortune", when it mentioned the victims, and it was difficult to tell whom it meant.
More absurd than the trial of accomplices, was their light sentences. 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. What was remarkable about the Israeli official attitude was that various authorities competed to lighten the killer's sentences. Finally, the committee for the release of prisoners ordered the remission of a third of the prison sentence of all those who were convicted. In September 1960, Daham was appointed in the municipality of the city of Ramle as officer for the Arab Affairs.
Khan Yunis Massacre
November 3, 1956: the Israelis occupy the town of Khan Yunis and the adjacent refugee camp claiming that there was resistance, but the refugees state that all resistance had ceased when the Israelis arrived and that all of the victims were unarmed civilians.
Many homes in Khan Yunis were raided at random. Corpses lie everywhere and because of the curfew no one could go out to bury them. (An UNRWA investigation later found that the Israelis at Khan Yunis and the refugee camp had murdered 275 civilians that day ).
After the Israelis withdrew from Gaza under American pressure, a mass grave was unearthed at Khan Yunis in March 1957. The grave contained the bodies of forty Arabs who had been shot in the back of the head after their hands had been tied. ("IMPERIAL ISRAEL", Michael Palumbo; London; Bloomsbury Publishing; 1990 pp. 30 - 32, citing UN General Assembly: Official Record, 11th session supplement, nop.)
Gaza
City Massacre
April 5, 1956: On Thursday evening, Zionist occupation forces fired 20-mm mortar artillery on the city of Gaza. The shelling was concentrated against the city center, which was teaming with civilians going about their day-to-day affairs. Most of the shelling was directed against Mukhtar Street, Palestine Square and nearby streets, as well as the Shuja'iyya district. As a result of this terrorist massacre carried out by gangs belonging to the Zionist Army against the Palestinian people, 56 people were killed and 103 were injured, the victims including men, women and children. Some of the wounded died subsequently, bringing the death toll to 60, to include 27 women, 29 men and 4 children.
Al-Sammou' Massacre
November 13, 1966: Israeli forces raided this village, destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses in a neighboring village. 18 people were killed and 54 wounded.
Aitharoun Massacre
1975 (Lebanon): The israelis perpetrated this massacre starting with a booby-trapped bomb. Then Israeli's detained three brothers, and killed them, throwing their bodies on the road. In total, 9 civilians were killed and 23 were wounded.
Kawnin Massacre
October 15, 1975 (Lebanon): An Israeli tank deliberately ran over a vehicle carrying 16 people killing them all.
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Hanin Massacre
October 16, 1976 (Lebanon): After a two- month siege and hours of shelling, the occupation forces stormed the village and turned it into a bloodbath intentionally killing 20 civilians.
Bint Jbeil Massacre
October 21, 1976 (Lebanon): The crowded market was the target of a sudden barrage of Israeli bombs killing 23 and injuring 30.
Abbasieh Massacre
March 17, 1978 (Lebanon): During the invasion of 1978, the Israeli warplanes destroyed the mosque of the town which was full of women, children and the elderly, killing 80 people, who were using the holy place as a shelter from the heavy Israeli shelling.
Adloun Massacre
March 17, 1978 (Lebanon): Two cars carrying 8 passengers came under Israeli fire while they were on their way to Beirut. Only one passenger escaped death.
Saida Massacre
April 4, 1981 (Lebanon): One of Saida's residential areas was targeted by the Israeli artillery which resulted in killing of 20 civilians, 30 wounded and damage to countless buildings.
Beirut Massacre
July 17, 1981 (Lebanon): Israeli warplanes staged several raids on many parts of Beirut, Ouzai, Ramlet, Al Baida, Fakhani, Chatila and the area of the Arab University, killing 150 citizens. 150 person were killed, 600 were wounded.
Sabra & Shatila Massacre
1982 (Lebanon): From the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Israel was working toward annihilating the Palestinian presence there. This may be seen from a number of massacres of which the world heard only little, carried out by Israeli forces and militias under their command in the Palestinian camps in south Lebanon (al-Rushaidiya, 'Ayn al-Hilu, al-Miya Miya, and others). This massacre was thus the outcome of a malicious and calculated plan, under the approval of the Zionist Minister of Defense at the time, Ariel Sharon.
The process of storming the camps began before sunset on Thursday, September 16th and continued for approximately 36 hours. 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. They supplied them with bulldozers and with the necessary pictures and maps. In addition, they set off incandescent bombs in the air in order to turn night into day so that none of the Palestinians would be able to escape death's grip. And those who did flee - women, children and the elderly - were brought back inside the camps by Israeli soldiers to face their destiny. At noon on Friday, the second day of the terrorist massacre, and with the approval of the Israeli Army, the kata'ib forces began receiving more ammunition, while the forces which had been in the camps were replaced by other, "fresh" forces. On Saturday morning, September 18th, the massacre had reached its peak, and thousands of Sabra and Shatila camp residents had been annihilated.
Information about the massacre began to leak out after a number of children and women fled to the Gaza Hospital in the Shatila camp, where they told doctors what was happening. News of the massacre also began to reach some foreign journalists on the morning of Friday, September 17th. One of the journalists who went into the camps after the massacre reports what he saw, saying, "The corpses of the Palestinians had been thrown among the rubble that remained of the Shatila camp. It was impossible to know exactly how many victims there were, but there had to be more than 1,000 dead. Some of the men who had been executed had been lined up in front of a wall, and bulldozers had been used in an attempt to bury the bodies and cover up the aftermath of the massacre, but the hands and feet of the victims protruded from the debris."
Hasan Salama (57 years old), whose 80-year-old brother was killed in the massacre, says, "They came from the mountains in thirty huge trucks. At first they started killing people with knives so that they wouldn't make any noise. Then on Friday there were snipers in the Shatila camp killing anybody who crossed the street. On Friday afternoon, armed men began going into the houses and firing on men, women and children. Then they started blowing up the houses and turning them into piles of rubble."
Author Amnoun Kabliyouk [p. 10] writes in his book about the tragedy of a young Palestinian girl who, like the rest of the children in the camp, faced this horrific massacre. 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). 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 girlfriend because we couldn't breathe anymore. Then all of a sudden we saw people raising white flags and handkerchiefs and coming toward the kata'ib saying, 'We're for peace and harmony ' and they killed them right then and there. The women were screaming, moaning and begging [for mercy]. As for me, I ran back to our house and got into the bathtub. I saw them leading our neighbors away and shooting them. I tried to stand up at the window to look outside, but one of the kata'ib fighters saw me and shot at me. So I went back to the bathtub and stayed there for five hours. When I came out, they grabbed me and threw me down with everybody else. One of them asked me if I was Palestinian, and I said yes. My nine-month-old nephew was beside me, and he was crying and screaming so much that one of the men got angry, so he shot him. I burst into tears and told him that this baby had been all the family I had left. That made him all the more angry, and he took the baby and tore him in two."
The massacre continued until noon on Saturday, September 18, leaving between 3,000 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians dead, most of them women, children and elderly people.
Jibsheet Massacre
March 27, 1984 (Lebanon): The occupation forces tanks and helicopters fired at a crowd of people killing 7 people and wounding 10.
Sohmor Massacre
September 19, 1984 (Lebanon): The occupation forces stormed the town with tanks, and military vehicles and ordered the inhabitants to congregate at the town's mosque where they fired at them murdering 13 and wounding 12.
Maaraka Massacre
March 5, 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. On this occasion, 15 people were murdered.
Seer Al Garbiah Massacre
March 23, 1985 (Lebanon): The massacre took place at Al- Husseinieh building where people took shelter from the shelling of the Israeli soldiers who stormed the town with a huge number of military vehicles. In total, 7 people were murdered.
Zrariah Massacre
March 11, 1985 (Lebanon): Following heavy shelling the occupation forces stormed the town with about 100 vehicles and perpetrated a butchery, killing children, women and the elderly. 22 civilians were slaughtered.
Homeen Al Tahta
March 21, 1985 (Lebanon): After attacking the village with 140 army vehicles, the occupation forces ordered the inhabitants to gather at the school of the village. They then destroyed it while they were inside, killing 20 civilians.
Jibaa Massacre
March 30, 1985 (Lebanon): A huge Israeli force attacked the town and put it under siege. As civilians attempted to escape the siege, Israeli soldiers fired at them, killing 5 and wounding 5.
Yohmor Massacre
April 13, 1985 (Lebanon): At 1:00 am, an Israeli armored force entered the town using civilian cars and opened fire at the houses which resulted in the killing of 10 people, among them a family of six.
Tiri Massacre
August 17, 1986 (Lebanon): Merciless crimes against civilians increased in the town with the occupation forces cutting the hands and ears from the heads of civilians. In total, 4 were killed and 79 were crippled and wounded.
Al
Naher Al Bared Massacre (Palestinian camp)
November 12, 1986 (Lebanon): The Israeli warplanes raided this Palestinian refugee camp killing 20 people and wounding 22.
Ain AL Hillwee Massacre (Palestinian Camp)
September 5, 1987 (Lebanon): Israeli jet fighters launched two raids killing 31 and wounding 41 others. The refugees were hit by another raid while they were evacuating the casualties, 34 more being killed.
Oyon Qara Massacre
May 20, 1990: An Israeli soldier lined up Palestinian laborers and murdered seven of them with a sub-machine gun. 13 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in subsequent demonstrations against the massacre.
Siddiqine Massacre
July 7, 1990 (Lebanon): The Israeli warplanes bombed a house, among the 3 killed was a four years old child.
Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre
October 8, 1990: As an extension of the Zionist policy based upon exercising control over the city of Jerusalem and emptying it of its [Arab] residents by various and sundry means, such as Zionist terrorism and shedding the blood of the Palestinian people - a policy which Zionists have acted upon on numerous occasions - Zionist authorities undertook on Monday, October 8, 1990 to carry out this heinous massacre against Palestinian worshippers.
Several days before the events of the massacre began, the "Temple Trustees" group distributed a statement to the media on the occasion of a religious festival of theirs which they call "the Throne Festival". In the statement the organization announced that it intended to stage a march to the Temple Mount (or so they call it). 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. At the same time, 10:00 a.m., a half-hour before the beginning of the massacre, Israeli occupation forces began placing military barriers along various roads leading to Jerusalem in order to prevent Palestinians from getting to the city.
The Israeli military then closed the doors to the mosque and forbad Jerusalem residents to go in even though thousands had already gathered inside the mosque before this time in response to calls from the Imam of the mosque and the Islamic movement to protect the mosque and to prevent the "Temple Trustees" from storming it and perhaps even imposing Jewish control over it. When the Muslim worshippers began resisting the Zionist group to prevent them from placing the "foundation stone" for their so-called temple, Zionist occupation forces began carrying out the massacre, using all the weapons at their disposal: poison gas bombs, automatic weapons, military helicopters, etc.
The soldiers, [Israeli] intelligence 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. The result was that thousands of Palestinian worshippers of various ages found themselves in a mass death trap. Twenty-three Palestinians were killed, and 850 others were wounded. The Israeli soldiers began firing at 10:30 a.m. and stopped 35 minutes later. They opened fire on the Palestinian worshippers randomly and in cold blood then pursuing them with clubs and rifles [outside the mosque].
Nurse Fatima Abu Khadir, who was wounded by a bullet which fractured her wrist, states, "We went into the mosque precincts in an ambulance. I saw a large number of injured who had fallen on the ground. Then I saw lots of soldiers, hundreds of soldiers. They were about 30 meters from the ambulance and kneeling on one knee the way snipers do, and their weapons were aimed inside the ambulance. After that I couldn't see anything."
News agencies described the blessed precincts of Al-Aqsa Mosque saying that blood had covered "the entire two hundred meters between the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. 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. 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 first-aid workers. Witnesses after the atrocity described the scene as a people swimming in blood.
Physician Muhammad Abu 'Ayila relates what happened to him and to a wounded man to whom he had been trying to administer first aid, and how the Zionists' glee at the sight of Palestinian blood spilled in the precincts of the holy mosque had blinded their eyes so much that they couldn't distinguish between a young child and an old man, between a man and a woman, between a wounded man and one seeking to treat him. He says, "I got out of the ambulance carrying a first-aid kit. I was wearing a white uniform. The soldiers saw me and knew I was a doctor. But when I got to the wounded person nearest me and bent down to treat him; I got three bullets in my back in the region of the kidney. At that very moment, the wounded man near me died, but he could have been saved if I hadn't been hit." Most of the wounds, in fact, were in the head and in the heart.
Then, in a farce designed to justify the crime which had been committed by Zionists' hands now stained with Palestinian blood, Yitzhaq Shamir, Prime Minister of the Zionist entity at that time, hastened to form a fact-finding committee which he called the "Zamir Committee" after its head, Tu'fi Zamir, former head of the Israeli Mossad. As for the outcome of the committee's investigation, it was announced by Moshe Almert, head of the Media Office of the occupation government, who said, "The report confirms clearly that the responsibility and fault for escalating [the conflict] lies on the side of the thousands of Muslim extremists, who were attacking the holy place of the Jews."
Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
February 25, 1994: While worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron were at Friday's dawn prayer, showers of bullets began raining down on them from all directions, killing more than 350 worshippers and injuring countless others.
And thus began the second chapter of this terrorist massacre at the hands of terrorist settler Baroukh Goldstein and his helpers. As for the first chapter, it had begun at the hour for the final evening prayer on Thursday, at which time Jewish settlers and soldiers prevented Muslim worshippers from entering the sacred masque to perform the evening prayer under the pretext that this was the day of their "Boleme" feast. Terrorist settlers gathered in the outer courtyards of the mosque and began setting off fireworks in the direction of the worshippers. Some time after this, the occupation forces allowed them to go inside the mosque itself in groups. At 10:00 p.m. the Muslim worshippers were asked to leave the mosque, and Zionist occupation soldiers began beating many of them as they left.
Hatim Qufaysha, a witness of the Zionist crime, says, "At 5:20 a.m. today everyone was standing up [in the mosque]. As I took off my shoes, I saw an old man wearing military clothes who was running along carrying a huge weapon loaded with ammunition. I was surprised to see him come into the mosque during the prayer. He opened fire, and I ran away and asked the soldier who guards the area to intervene, but all he did was beat me up, then I left the mosque area.
Eye witnesses who survived the massacre say, "We heard the sound of a muffled explosion. 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. Another [Jewish] settler stood beside him loading a second rifle so that it would be ready to go to work next." Muhammad Sari, one of the worshippers present at the time of the massacre, states, "People are used to attending the dawn prayer on Fridays in large numbers." He estimated the number of worshippers present that morning at about 500. Then he added, "the muezzin announced the beginning of the prayer, so we knelt and made the first prostration. Then all of a sudden we heard the sound of heavy gun fire coming from behind us. When I turned around in the direction of the sound, I saw a soldier in full uniform. He had put ear pieces in his ears, and he was holding a rapid-firing machine gun and firing in the direction of the worshippers." S ari was wounded in both legs when he tried to stand up. 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. And within moments Goldstein had been brought to the ground by the young men. Unfortunately, due to the heavy gun fire, the mosque had turned into something on the order of a slaughterhouse, filled with pools of blood. Muhammad Sulayman Abu Salih, a custodian at the Abrahamic mosque, describes the terrifying sight inside the mosque saying, "The terrorist was trying to kill as many people as possible. The corpses were scattered all over, spattering the floor of the mosque with blood.
Worshippers who had been prostrating 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 armed man reloaded his rifle at least once and killed at least seven people at one time, the contents of their skulls scattering all over the floor. He kept on shooting for ten minutes, and the army didn't step in until the massacre was over."
Sheikh Ibrahim Abdeen, the Imam of the mosque, says that the bullets were coming from several places, that it was a true blood bath. The Israeli soldiers' reaction was very slow; they actually delayed the arrival of the ambulances. Nor did this terrorist massacre stop with the killing of Goldstein. When the shooting stopped, the soldiers came pouring into the mosque. According to witnesses of the massacre, the soldiers, together with a number of Jewish settlers, opened fire on those who had gathered around Goldstein, and not one of them survived. And thus, the second massacre. Then outside the mosque, the soldiers opened fire on the ambulance which had arrived at the mosque to treat the wounded; thus occurred the third massacre, which itself did not stop there, since the soldiers pursued the wounded and those seeking to treat them as far as the doors of the hospitals, where they proceeded to kill even more. Other forces pursued their victims' funeral processions as far as the cemetery gates, where they killed still more. Hence, this heinous massacre carried out against worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque led to more than 24 deaths and injured hundreds of others.
The Jabalia Massacre
March 28, 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 murdered by shots to their heads.
Aramta Massacre
April 15, 1994 (Lebanon): After blockading the town, armed men entered and ordered the people to gather at the town's square, where they were assaulted. Then, they took the men and women to the detention camp. Later on they stormed, the district of the town killing 2 and wounding 6.
Eretz Checkpoint Massacre
July 17, 1994: Palestinian sources reported that the occupation forces had committed a disgusting massacre against Palestinian workers at Eretz checkpoint. Eyewitnesses and Israeli sources reported that 11 Palestinians were 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 a number of settlers were taking part in firing at Palestinians. Protests 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 where two were shot.
Deir Al Zahrani Massacre
August 5, 1994(Lebanon): Israeli warplanes fired a "vacuum" missile at a two- story building in Deir Al Zahrani which was destroyed over the heads of the inhabitants killing 8 and wounding 17.
Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre
March 21, 1994 (Lebanon): Israeli warplanes targeted aschool bus full of pupils, killing 4 children and injuring 10 others.
Sohmor Massacre (second)
April 2, 1996 (Lebanon): Israeli artillery targeted a civilian car carrying eight passengers, killing them all.
Al Munsuriah
April 13, 1996: at about 1:30 P.M., an IDF helicopter fired rockets at a vehicle carrying thirteen civilians fleeing the village of Al Mansuriah, killing two women and four young girls. The vehicle was a Volvo station wagon with a blue flood light, a red crescent painted on the hood and the word "ambulance" written in Arabic. Reporters at the scene filmed the incident. The film footage shows and testimony of UN soldiers who arrived immediately after the car was hit corroborate, that there were no weapons or any other type of military equipment in the car, only some food and clothes. Amnesty's investigation revealed that none of the passengers were connected to Hizbullah.
Nabatiyah Massacre
April 18, 1996: Eleven people were killed and ten injured in an IDF air attack on a house in Nabatiyah Al Faqwah, some three kilometers north of Nabatiyah, in South Lebanon. Eight of those killed were from one family: a mother and her seven children, including a four-day-old baby. Around 6:30 a.m., IDF helicopters fired rockets at three buildings in the village, demolishing one totally and severely damaging the other two. Lebanese families were living in the buildings. The IDF Spokesperson claimed that the helicopters fired at the building in which the eleven were killed because Hizbullah was hiding there after firing the mortars. Investigations conducted by Amnesty and HRW did not confirm this contention The IDF's statement ignored the fact that the IDF fired at two other buildings during the same attack.
Qana Massacre
April 18, 1996: The "ethnic cleansing" operations carried out by the Israeli Army have encompassed not only Palestinian civilians, but Lebanese civilians in south Lebanon as well. In an attempt to break the power of the Lebanese Hizballah organization, Israeli forces undertook a military operation against south Lebanon. This operation was likewise based upon the Zionist mentality, supportive as it is of blood-letting and terrorism and based upon the belief that "exercising pressure against Lebanese citizens will lead in practical terms to comprehensive, overall pressure on account of which the Hizballah organization will be obliged to adhere to a ceasefire." Given this reasoning, the Israeli forces bombed the shelter which was providing refuge to approximately five hundred Lebanese, most of whom were children, elderly and women who had been forced out of their homes by Israeli raids on their villages, and who had been unable to get to Beirut. This bombing led to the deaths of 109 Lebanese civilians and seriously wounded 116 others. During the attack, Israeli forces used between 5 and 6 advanced bombs designed to explode above their target in order to cause the largest possible number of casualties. Moreover, international investigations confirmed that the Israeli forces had deliberately targeted
the shelter.
Ali, one of those wounded in the attack, says, "I fled in the morning with two friends and went for refuge to the emergency forces in Qana. I had my wife and my four children with me. They led us into a shelter where there were about fifty people. Then suddenly the sound of bombing rang out. A first shell, then a second fell near the shelter, and as we were trying to get out, another shell hit the shelter directly. I don't know what happened to my wife and children."
Fadi Jabir weeps as he talks about what he saw after the Israeli bombs fell on those who had left their homes to come to the base for the UN Fayjiya peace-keeping forces. He says, "I heard people shouting 'Allahu Akbar!', and a woman fell down unconscious. I reached out to get an idea what had happened to her, and her brain fell into my hand."
As for Sa'd Allah Balhas, who was wounded by a piece of shrapnel in the Israeli massacre, he says,
"In one second I lost everything: my children, 14 of my grandchildren, and my wife. I don't want to live anymore. Tell the doctors to let me die."
Trqumia Massacre
March 10, 1998: In the Israeli Occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons on a van full of unarmed Palestinian workers, killing Adnan Abu Zneid, 34, and two other Palestinians. Two more laborers were wounded as the group returned from helping to construct a building near Tel Aviv. Eyewitnesses described the Israeli gunfire as "indiscriminate." Israeli Army Maj. Uzi Dayan said that the soldiers acted "according to regulations" in opening fire on the van with automatic weapons at a checkpoint outside Hebron.
Ali Abu Zneid, 37, a cousin of the deceased, was in the van and fell uninjured under the others' bodies. He said that the Jewish soldiers, "shot to kill." Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai described the killings as an "accident"
Janta Massacre
December 22, 1998 (Lebanon): Israeli warplanes waited for the children to come home from the field to embrace their mother when they carried out this savage attack. Mother and her 6 children were killed.
24 Of June 1999 Massacres
June 24, 1999 (Lebanon): After 8 civilians were killed and 84 were injured, an interview with the Kolhaer magazine, five Israeli soldiers said that the artillery commander had said to his soldiers "We are skilled marksmen. Anyhow, there are millions of Arabs... It's their problem. Whether Arabs become one more or less is just the same...We have accomplished our duty. The whole issue is not about more than a group of "Arabosheem" (a racist term hostile to Arabs used by the Israelis). We should have launched more shells to kill more Arabs.
Western Bekaa Villages
Massacre
December 29, 1999 (Lebanon): Israeli warplanes dropped bombs on he children who were celebrating the "Eid" festival, killing eight children and wounding 11 others.
Jenin Massacre
April 3-11, 2002: Although this massacre became controversial due to the numbers suspected killed, the fact that indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians at the hands of Israel took place in undeniable. Rather than being hundreds of deaths as suspected, the number of bodies found was at least 52 as confirmed by the United Nations. Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented the indiscriminate killing of children, women and even the wheelchair bound. HRW went further to document killings as “summary executions”. Israeli supporters dismissed this event as being a massacre due to not enough people being killed, as though there is a magic number to satisfy a massacre.
Gaza massacre
February, 2008: Within 3 days, more than 120 innocent were massacred by the Israeli Occupation Forces, most of which were women and children, the youngest only 4 days old. In addition, border closings have halted humanitarian efforts as food supplies, fuel, electricity and medical supplies is being denied to the people of Gaza. The ruthless murders led one Jewish organization to condemn "the recent Zionist terrorist massacre" publishing a statement that read "Anti-Zionist Jews condemn the Zionists in no uncertain terms for their violent and bloodthirsty behavior"
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"No Massacre at Jenin: Says Who?" by Stephen Gowans, August 2002
