Massacres
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....
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,...
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....
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...