Recitation of the names of the victims of Deir Yassin St. John's Wood Church, April 2002 Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it ...

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Human Rights June 1999, pages 109-114 Deir Yassin Remembered in Twilight Vigil Hope lives when people remember. Simon Wiesenthal A moving vigil was held in front of the White House to honor the victims of the massacre at Deir Yassin, the Palestinian village on the west side of Jerusalem, where more than 100 Palestinians were murdered by the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Lehi (Stern Gang) militias ...