Massacre background :

9/4/1948(Palestine): The forces of the Zionist gangs Tsel, Irgun and Hagana, fitted out
with the Zionist  terrorist strategy of killing civilians in order to achieve their aspirations,
began  stealing into the village on the night of April 9, 1948. Their purpose was to uproot
the  Palestinian people from their land by coming upon the inhabitants of the village
unawares, destroying their homes and burning them down on top of those inside,
thereby making clear to the entire world to what depths of barbarism Zionist had sunk.
The attack began as the children were asleep in their mothers' and fathers' arms. In the
words of Menachim Begin 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
should the Stern and Irgun gangs do but rush to mow down 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. Behind the
explosives there marched the Stern and Irgun terrorists, who killed whoever they found
alive. The explosions continued in the same barbaric fashion until the afternoon of April
10, 1948.7 Then they gathered together the civilians who were still alive, stood them up
beside the walls and in corners, then fired on them. 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 Deir Yasin, where they were shot in cold blood. Then the Etsel and Layhi "fighters"
brought the women and the children who had managed to survive up to a truck and took
them 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 elderly.