RAMALLAH, Sunday, April 9, 2023 (WAFA) – On this day in 1948, a couple of hundred armed Zionist militias from the pre-1948 Irgun and Stern gangs stormed the village of Deir Yassin, a few kilometers to the west of Jerusalem, and committed one of the earliest massacres that became standard practice for the newly-founded state of Israel.

On April 9, 1948, Zionist gangs raided the village of Deir Yassin, killing at leasr 254 Palestinian civilians, mainly women, children and the elderly. There were documented cases of rape, mutilation and humiliation.