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.
THE AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE
At the dawn hours of Monday, October 8, 1990, Palestinians started to flock the Aqsa mosque in response to a call from the Imam of Aqsa on October 05, 1990. Rabbi Salmon, a prominent Jewish leader, promised to break in the Aqsa and to erect the core stone for the temple.
The interesting thing was that neither the police nor the army of Israel acted as they normally did. No checkpoints were over posted on the ways to the Aqsa to prohibit or restrict Palestinians from entering the Aqsa.
The massacre started when an Israeli police helicopter that was hovering over the area shot a tear gas bomb on the attendants. Palestinians threw rocks on the police and the Border Guards. Then the massacre started.
Eyewitnesses who were at close distance to the leader of the Israeli Border Guards unit in the area, Shlomo Ketab'i, testified that he screamed at the Palestinians telling them that "This is your day, Palestinians."
Jerusalem hospitals' sources reported the number of injuries at 337. Two people wounded were admitted to the Israeli Hadasah hospital one of whom, Salem Ahmad Al Khalidi from Jerusalem, died of his injury on 24, 1990. An unknown number of people injured were taken to other hospitals in Ramallah and Bethlehem
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.