So is this all true? Israelis like doctors who wear gloves in order
not to leave fingerprints? Some of the incidents equate to the US
Liberty? The author claims to just print the facts without
antisemitism involved - the facts speak alone.
Saba
I of Three Parts
FIERCE CRY FOR LIBERATION ...
Israeli Massacres:
Details and Numbers
Although the Image that Israel distributes about herself is that of an
oppressed nation, it is with heavy hearts that we present these crimes
that stand for themselves for the brutality of the Israeli Army and the
heartlessness of its soldiers who seem to have a thirst for blood. It is
for the hope that the world may see a clearer picture that we present
these painful facts. It is interesting to notice that today's media does
not dwell on these crimes as they do on the Holocaust. They are reported
in the news for a week or two and then swept into the sea of oblivion.
Those who attempt to revive the true history of Israel are charged of
being anti-Semitic. So with the hope to keep those memories in mind we
present this shameful history of Israel that seems to have found that
the role of Goliath is more interesting than that of David.
The following list of massacres is by no means exclusive, but they
reflect the nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and Lebanon
and show 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'.
The King David Massacre
The Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh
YEHIDA MASSACRE
KHISAS MASSACRE
QAZAZA MASSACRE
The Semiramis Hotel Massacre
The Massacre at Dair Yasin
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE
THE TANTURA MASSACRE
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE
DAWAYMA MASSACRE
HOULA MASSACRE
SHARAFAT MASSACRE
Salha Massacre
The Massacre at Qibya
KAFR QASEM MASSACRE
Khan Yunis Massacre
The Massacre in Gaza City
AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE
Aitharoun Massacre
Kawnin Massacre
Hanin Massacre
Bint Jbeil Massacre
Abbasieh Massacre
Adloun Massacre
Saida Massacre
Fakhani Massacre
Beirut MassacreSabra And Shatila Massacre
Jibsheet Massacre
Sohmor Massacre
Seer Al Garbiah
Maaraka Massacres
Zrariah Massacre
Homeen Al-Tahta Massacre
Jibaa Massacre
Yohmor Massacre
Tiri massacre
Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre
Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre
OYON QARA MASSACRE
Siddiqine Massacre
AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE JABALIA MASSACRE
Aramta Massacre
ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE
Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre
Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre
Mnsuriah Massacre
The Sohmor Second Massacre
Nabatyaih Massacre
Qana Massacre
Trqumia Massacr
Janta Massacre
24 Of June 1999 Massacres
Western Bekaa villages Massacre:
The King David Massacre:
The King David Hotel explosion of July 22, 1946 (Palestine), which
resulted in the deaths of 92 Britons, 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 head 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."
Although members of the Irgun Z'vai Leumi took responsibility for this
crime, yet they also made it public later that they obtained the consent
and approval of the Haganah Command, and it follows, that of the Jewish
Agency.
The King David Hotel massacre shocked the conscience of the
civilizedworld. 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."
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The Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh:
January 30-31, 1947(Palestine) : 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-Shaikh 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-Shaikh and
Hawasa.1
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.]2 They focused their attack on the outskirts of
Baldat al-Shaikh 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.3 The terrorist
attack led to the deaths of approximately sixty citizens inside their
homes, most of
them women, elderly and children.4 The attack lasted for an hour,
after which the
Zionists withdrew at 2:00 a.m., having attacked a large number of
noncombatant
homes.5 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."6
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YEHIDA MASSACRE:
13 December 1947(Palestine) : 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 were reassured espeically 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 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 civilans 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.
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KHISAS MASSACRE:
18 December 1947(Palestine) : 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.
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QAZAZA MASSACRE:
19 December 1947(Palestine) : 5 Arab children were murdered when Jewish
terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar.
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The Semiramis Hotel Massacre:
5/7/1948(Palestine): 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. If this massacre had taken place in World War II, they would
have been sentenced to death for their criminal responsibility along
with the terrorists who placed the explosives.
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…
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The Massacre at Dair Yasin:
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.8
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 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.8 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.9
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."10 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.11 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."12 Some of the soldiers cut off women's ears in order to
get at a few small earrings.13 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,
then closed it up. And they tried to change the landmarks in the area
so that the Red Cross representative wouldn't be able to find his way
there. However, he did find his way to the well, where he found 150
maimed corpses belonging to women, children and the elderly. And 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.14
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 peaceable, unarmed village, since in this way
they could spread terror among the Arabs and force them to flee.15
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NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE:
13-14 April 1948(Palestine) : a contingent of Lehi and Irgon entered
this village (near Tiberias) entered the village on the night of 13
April dressed as Arab 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.
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Abu Shusha Massacre
(coming soon)
THE TANTURA MASSACRE:
May 15, 1948 (Palestine): "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.
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BEIT DARAS MASSACRE:
21 May 1948(Palestine): 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.
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THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE:
11 July 1948 (Palestine): 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 son stroke. Many survived
by drinking their own urine. The conditions in the refugee camps were to
claim more lives.
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DAWAYMA MASSACRE:
On October 29 Palestine): 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 (head of a village) 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.
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HOULA MASSACRE:
26/10/1948 (Lebanon) :Houla is located in southern Lebanon, only a few
kilometers from the Israeli border. When Arab volunteers gathered to
liberate Palestine from "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. That
was not enough. Jewish militants blew up the houses with dead corpses
inside. They confiscated property and livestock. The three who survived
the massacre, of whom one is still alive, and other town residents fled
to Beirut. Following the armistice agreement between Lebanon and
"Israel" in 1949, village residents returned to find their houses in
rubbles 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.
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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 mrytyred.
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SHARAFAT MASSACRE:
7 Febraury 1951(Palestine): Israeli soldiers corssed the armistice line
to this village (5Km from Jerusalem) and blew up the houses of the
Mukhtar and his neighbors. 10 were killed (2 elderly men,raeli soldiers
corssed the armistice line to this village (5Km from Jerusalem) and blew
up the houses of the Mukhtar and his neighbors. 10 were killed (2
elderly men, 3 woemen and 5 children) and 8 were wounded.
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The Massacre at Qibya:
14-15/10/1953 (Palestine): On the night of October 14-15, 1953 , this
village was the object of a brutal "Israeli" attack which was carried
out by units from the regular 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 it and cordoned
it off from all of
the other Arab villages. The attack began with concentrated,
indiscriminate artillery
fire on the homes in the village. 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 who tried 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.16 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.17
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.18
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."19
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KAFR QASEM MASSACRE:
On October 29, 1956 (Palestine): the day on which Israel launched
its assault on Egypt , units of Israel 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 requested to stay home. The Mukhtar (Alderman)
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 screamed
"REAP THEM," 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
thefrontier 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.
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Khan Yunis Massacre:
3/11/1956 (Palestine): Another massacre is committed on November 3, 1956
when the Israelis occupy the town of Khan Yunis and the adjacent refugee
camp. The Israelis claim 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 are 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 therefugee
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.)
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The Massacre in Gaza City:
5/4/1956 (Palestine): On the evening of Thursday, April 5, 1956, 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.29 Most
of the shelling was directed against Mukhtar Street, Palestine Square
and nearby streets, as well as the Shuja'iyya district.30 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,
including 27 women, 29 men and 4 children.31
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AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE:
13 November 1966(Palestine): Israeli forces raided this village,
destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses
in a neighbouring village. 18 people were killed and 54 wounded.
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Aitharoun Massacre:
1975 (Lebanon) :The 1sraelis perpetrated this massacre starting with a
booby-trapped bomb. Then Israeli's detained three brothers, and killed
them. They threw Their bodies on the road. 9 cicvlians were killed, 23
were wounded.
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Kawnin Massacre:
15/10/1975(Lebanon): An Israeli tank deliberately ran over a car
carrying 16
people, and none of them escaped death.
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Hanin Massacre :
16/10/1976(Lebanon): After a two- month siege and hours of shelling, the
occupation forces stormed the village and turned it into a bloodbath. 20
perosn were mrtyred.
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Bint Jbeil Massacre :
21/10/1976(Lebanon):The crowded market was the target of a sudden
barrage of Israeli bombs, slaughtering a lot of people. 23 were killed,
30 were wonded.
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Abbasieh Massacre :
17/3/1978 (Lebanon): During the invasion of 1978, the Israeli warplanes
destroyed the
mosque of the town on the heads of the women, children and the
elderly who used the holy place as a shelter from the heavy
Israeli shelling.80 perosn were martyred.
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Adloun Massacre :
17/3/1978 (Lebanon): At Adloun on march 17, two cars carrying 8
passengers came under Israeli fire while they were on their way to
Beirut. One passenger only escaped death.
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Saida Massacre :
4/4/1981 (Lebanon) :One of Saida's residential areas was targeted by the
Israeli artillery which resulted in killing of many civilians and
damaging to many buildings.20 perosn were kiled, 30 were wounded.
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Fakhani Massacre :
17/7/1981 (Lebanon):A horrible massacre took place when Israeli
warplanes raided a crowded residential area using the most developed
weapons killing and wounding many citizens. 150 perosn were killed, 600
were wounded.
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Beirut Massacre :
17/7/1981 (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 many citizens. 150 person were killed, 600
were wounded
.
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The Massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Camps:
A number of events led to the decision of an extremist terrorist
group of the Lebanese kata'ib forces and forces belonging to the Zionist
Army to carry out massacres against the Palestinians. From the
beginning of the Zionist invasion of Lebanon, the Zionists and their
agents were working toward being able to extirpate the Palestinian
presence in Lebanon. 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).32
This massacre was thus the outcome of a long mathematical
calculation. It was carried out by groups of
Lebanese forces under the leadership of Ilyas Haqiba, head of the
kata'ib intelligence apparatus and with the approval of the Zionist
Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon and the Commander of the Northern
District, General Amir Dawri. High-level Israeli officers had been
planning for some time to enable the Lebanese forces to go into the
Palestinian camps once West Beirut had been surrounded.33
Two days before the massacre began - on the evening of September 14 -
planning and coordination meetings were held between terrorist Sharon
and his companion, Eitan. Plans were laid to have the kata'ib forces
storm the camps, and at dawn, September 15, Israel stormed West Beirut
and cordoned off the camps. A high-level meeting was held on Thursday
morning, September 16, 1982 in which Israel was represented by General
Amir Dawri, Supreme Commander of the Northern Forces.
The job of carrying out the operation was assigned to Eli Haqiba, a
major security official in the Lebanese forces. The meeting was also
attended by Fadi Afram, Commander of the Lebanese Forces.34
The process of storming the camps began before sunset on Thursday,
September 16,35 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.36 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.37 On Saturday morning, September 18, 1982, 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 Friday morning, September 17.38
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."40
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 girl friend
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."41
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.42
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Jibsheet Massacre :
27/3/1984(Lebanon): The occupation forcers' tanks and helicopters fired
at a crowded people killing many civilians. 7 perosns were martyred, 10
were wounded.
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Sohmor Massacre :
19/9/1984 (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. 13 martyrs, 12 wounded.
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Seer Al Garbiah Massacre :
23/3/1985 (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.7 persons were
martyred.
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Maaraka Massacres:
5/3/1985(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. 15 perosns
were killed.
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Zrariah Massacre :
11/3/1985(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 civlians were slaughtred.
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Homeen Al-Tahta Massacre :
21/3/1985(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 over their heads. 20 incoent person
were martyred.
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Jibaa Massacre :
30/3/1985(Lebanon): A huge enemy force attacked the town and put it
under siege, .When some people tried to escape the siege, the enemy
soldiers fired at them, killing and wounding a lot of them. 5 perosn
were killed, 5 were wounded.
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Yohmor Massacre :
13/4/1985 (Lebanon): At one O'clock in the morning, 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 people.
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Tiri massacre :
17/8/1986 (Lebanon): Merciless crimes against civilians increased in the
town with the occupation forces cutting the hands and ears from the
head. 4 perosns were killed, 79 were crippled and wounded.
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Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre (Palestinian camp):
11/12/1986(Lebanon): The Israeli warplanes raided this Palestinian
refugee camp killing many of the refugees. 20 person were killed , 22
were wounded.
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Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre(Palestinian Camp) :
5/9/1987(Lebanon): The enemy jet fighters launched two raids killing 31
and wounding 41 others. The refugees were hit by a thin raid while
they were evacuating
casualties, 34 more being killed.
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OYON QARA MASSACRE:
20 May 1990, an Israeli soldier lined up Palestinian labors and
murdered seven of them with a sub-machine gun. 13 Palesinians were
killed by Israeli forces in subsequent demonstrations at the massacre.
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Siddiqine Massacre:
25/7/1990(Lebanon): The Israeli warplanes bombed a house, among the 3
killed a four years old child.
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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.43 At the same time, that is, at 10:00 a.m. and 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.
They also closed the doors of the mosque itself and forbid Jerusalem
residents to go in. However, 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.44 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 men 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 and nationalities found themselves in a mass death trap.
Twenty-three Palestinians were killed, and 850 others were wounded to
varying degrees.45 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 they pursued them with clubs and rifles [outside the mosque].46
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."47
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. Everyone - the wounded and the more fortunate,
first-aid workers, journalists, and Israeli soldiers - all of them
looked as though they were swimming in blood.48
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."49 Most of the wounds, in fact, were in
the head and in the heart.50
Then, in a farce designed to justify the crime which had been
committed by Zionists' hands now stained with Palestinian blood,
terrorist 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."51
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THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE:
February 25, 1994 (Palestine):
While worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron were
kneeling and
prostrating before God, turning their faces toward the sacred house
of God in the
Friday dawn prayer on February 25, 1994, showers of treacherous
Zionist bullets
began raining down on them from all directions, felling more than 350
peaceable
worshippers, some of whom were killed, and others wounded. 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.52
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."53 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."54 Sari 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.55 But 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 prostrate
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.57 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
occurred 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.
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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.
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Aramta Massacre:
15/4/1994(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, and killed whomever
they saw. 2 perosns were l\killed, 6 were wounded.
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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 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 yesterday,
and today two Palestinians were shot in Hebron.
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Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre:
5/8/1994(Lebanon):
The Israeli warplanes fired a "vacuum" missile at a two- story
building,in Deir Al-Zahranee which was destroyed over the heads of the
inhabitants. 8 people were killed , 17 wee injured.
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Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre:
21/03/1994(Lebanon):
The Israeli warplanes targeted school bus ful of puiples 4 childs were
killed,10(child) Injured.
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The Sohmor Second Massacre :
2/04/1996 (Lebanon):
The Israeli artillery targeted a civilian car carrying eight
passengers, killing all of them .
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Mnsuriah Massacre:
On 13 April 1996, at about 1:30 P.M., an IDF helicopter fired rockets at
a vehicle carrying thirteen civilians fleeing the village of al-Mansuri,
killing two women and four young girls. The vehicle was a Volvo station
wagon with a blue flooding 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.
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Nabatyaih Massacre:
18 April 1996, Eleven persons were killed and ten injured in an IDF air
attack on a house in Nabatiyya al-Faqwah, some three kilometers north of
Nabatiyya, 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
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Qana Massacre :
18 April 1996, The "ethnic cleansing" operations carried out by the
Zionist terrorist 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 Hizbollah
organization, Zionist
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 Hizbollah organization will be obliged to adhere to a
ceasefire."59 Given
this reasoning, the Zionist 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.60
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."61 Fadi Jabir weeps as he
talks about
things 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."62 As
for Sa'd Allah
Balhas, who was wounded by a piece of shrapnel in the Zionist
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."63
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Trqumia Massacr:
March 10 1998 :Israeli Occupied West Bank, March 10--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"
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Janta Massacre :
22/12/1998 (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
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24 Of June 1999 Massacres
24/6/1999 (Lebanon)
Martyrs: 8
Injures: 84
Target: Under
Building in
Beirut
In 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.
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Western Bekaa villages Massacre:
29/12/1999 (Lebanon):
The Israeli warplanes dropped bombs on he children who were celebrating
the "eid" festival, killing eight children and wounding 11 others.
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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 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.
IT IS WRITTEN IN TORAH:
"Destroy all of the land; beat down their pillars and break their
statues and waste all of their high places, cleansing the land and
dwelling in it, for I have given it to you for a possession" Numbers
33:52,53
"And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city both men and women,
young and old and ox and sheep and ass with the edge of the sword."
Joshua 6:21
References:
1. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part I, op. cit., p.
413, paraphrased.
2. Ghazi al-Sa'di, Massacres and Practices, 1936-1983,
Amman, Dar al-Jalil
lil-Nashr wal-Dirasat [The Galilee House for Publication
and Research] , June
1985, p. 43.
3. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, op. cit., p. 413.
4. al-Sa'di, op. cit., p. 43.
5. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, op. cit., p. 414.
6. al-Sa'di, op. cit., p. 43.
7. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part II, op. cit., p.
434.
8. Dr. Hamdan Badr, The Role of the Hagana Organization
in the
Establishment of Israel, Amman: Dar al-Jalil lil-Nashr
wal-Dirasat, 1985, p.
303.
9. Ibid.
10. Arafat Hijazi, Dair Yasin: The Roots and Dimensions
of the Crime in Zionist
Thought, p. 63.
11. Roget Delurme [sp?], trans. by Nakhla Kallas, I
Accuse, no place of
publication: Dar al-Jurmuq lil-Tiba'a wal-Nashr [The Jurmuq
House for Printing
and Publication], no date, pp. 52-53.
12. Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, O' Jerusalem,
1972, p. 275.
13. Hijazi, op. cit., p. 63.
14. al-Sa'di, op. cit., p. 60.
15. Salih al-Shar', op. cit., p. 201.
16. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part III, p. 502.
17. Jawad al-Hamad, The Palestinian People: Victim of
Zionist Massacres
and Terrorism, Markaz Dirasat al-Sharq al-Awsat [Center
for Middle East
Studies], 1995, p.24.
18. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part III, op. cit.,
pp. 502-503.
19. The Memoirs of Ariel Sharon, trans. by Antoine Abir,
Beirut, Maktabat
Bisan, 1991, p. 110.
20. Emile Habiby, Kufr Qasim: the Political Massacre,
Haifa: Manshourat
Arabask [Arabask Publications], 1976, p. 82.
21. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part III, op. cit., p.
653.
22. Habiby, op. cit., p. 17.
23. al-Sa'di, op. cit., pp. 85-86.
24. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part III. op. cit., p.
653.
25. Habiby, op. cit., p. 37.
26. al-Hamd, op. cit., p. 29.
27. al-Sa'di, op. cit., p. 87.
28. Among the Most Important Terrorists, Beirut:
Mu'assasat al-Dirasat
al-Filistiniya [The Foundation for Palestinian Studies],
1973, pp. 37-38.
29. Husayn Abu al-Naml, The Gaza Strip, 1948-1967:
Economic, Political,
Social and Military Developments, Beirut: Center for
Research, PLO, 1979, p.
121.
30. Ghazi al-Sourani, The Gaza Strip, 1948-1993, Beirut:
Dar al-Mubtada',
1993, p. 27.
31. Abu al-Naml, op. cit., p. 121.
32. Abd al-Hafiz Muhammad, The Massacre: Beirut, Sabra
and Shatila, the
Invasion of Lebanon, Amman, the Akhbar al-Usbu' [Weekly
News] newspaper,
1982, p. 111.
33. The Qatar News Agency, The Invasion, the Massacre:
Crime of the
Twentieth Century, no date of publication, 1982, p. . .
. [?].
34. al-Hamad, op. cit., p. 36.
35. Amnoun Kabliyouk [sp?], trans. by the Arab
Translation Center, Sabra and
Shatila: The Investigation of a Massacre, Paris:
Manshourat al-Maktab al-Arabi
[Arab Office Publications], 1983, p. 34.
36. Muhammad, op. cit., p. 89.
37. al-Sa'di, A Document of Crime and Condemnation,
Amman: Dar al-Jalil
lil-Nashr, 1983, p. 262.
38. Kabliyouk, op. cit., p. 79.
39. The Qatar News Agency, op. cit., p. 134.
40. Muhammad, op. cit., pp. 119-120.
41. Kabliyouk, op. cit., pp. 51-52.
42. al-Hamad, op. cit., p. 38.
43. Sahifat al-Muslimun al-Sa'udiya (the Saudi
newspaper, The Muslims),
March 5, 1993.
44. al-Hamad, op. cit., p. 55.
45. Nawaf al-Zaru, Jerusalem: Between Zionist
Judaization Plans and the
Palestinian Struggle and Resistance, Amman: Dar
al-Khawaja lil-Nashr
wal-Tawzi' [Khawaja House for Publication and
Distribution], 1991, p. 115.
46. The Jordanian newspaper, Al-Dustour, October 9,
1990.
47. al-Zaru, op. cit., p. 129.
48. Al-Dustour, op. cit.
49. al-Zaru, op. cit., p. 129.
50. Ibid., p. 128.
51. Al-Muslimun newspaper, op. cit.
52. The Jordanian newspaper, Al-Ra'y [Opinion], February
26, 1994.
53. Usama Mustafa, "Goldstein: Settler, Soldier, or the
Forbidden Fruit of
Peace?" the Filastin al-Muslima [Muslim Palestine]
magazine (London), April
1994, p. 9.
54. Al-Ra'y, op. cit.
55. Mustafa, op. cit., p. 9.
56. Al-Dustour, op. cit., Feb. 26, 1994.
57. The Jordanian newspaper, Al-Aswaq [Markets],
February 27, 1994.
58. Mustafa, op. cit., p. 9.
59. A team of analysts, "The Israeli Campaign Against
the Hamas Movement
and the Hizbollah Organization: Programs, Goals,
Outcomes and Implications",
the periodical Qadaya Sharq Awsatiya [Middle East
Issues], No. 2, Amman,
Markaz Dirasat al-Sharq al-Awsat [Center for Middle East
Studies], pp. 84-85.
60. Ibid., p. 84.
61. Filastin al-Muslima (London), May 1996 issue, p. 9.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
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