Place
Deir Yassin
Village west of Jerusalem attacked on 9 April 1948 by Irgun and Lehi fighters, per the U.S. consul in Jerusalem.
Connections 3
involved in
- 1948 war among the cases Morris lists According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
location of
- Deir Yassin, April 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
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Deir Yassin, April 1948
Primary record
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The U.S. consul's figure of 250 is a contemporary report; Benny Morris puts the dead at 100 to 110.
Proof 2 sources
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Survival of the Fittest? An interview with Benny Morris, by Ari Shavit (Haaretz, 9 January 2004), Haaretz, reprinted by Logos Journal, 9 Jan 2004.
Scholarship & press
The worst cases were Saliha (70-80 killed), Deir Yassin (100-110), Lod (250), Dawayima (hundreds) and perhaps Abu Shusha (70).
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The Consul at Jerusalem (Wasson) to the Secretary of State, 13 April 1948 (FRUS 1948, vol. V, part 2, doc. 145), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 13 Apr 1948.
Primary record
Attackers killed 250 persons of whom half, by their own admission to American correspondents, were women and children.
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