Al-Dawaymeh Massacre

مشرف سابق

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A massacre committed by Zionist forces, at Al-Dawymeh village, located
between Beir Al-Sabaa and Al-Khalil, it is considered to be the worst atrocity
committed during the Palestinian calamity. It was occupied by unit 89 of the 8th Zionist army corps

The united
nations’ reconciliation committee, which replaced cont Pernadot in mediation
efforts, held to probe the atrocity that
committed in this village which located no more than 8 miles from Al-Khalil, in 28/10/1948, its native inhabitants were 2000, soared up
to 6000, by refugees from other villages.

The United
Nations’ report dated in 14/5/1949 contained the following points:

At the bottom the
reason for the meager information about this atrocity, which over account what
had occurred in Deir Yassin, related to the Arabic army corps ( the army where
the village was under its authority ) who apparently were afraid the spread of
these information may affect the rural spirit, and end up with mass migration similarly to Deir Yassin massacre effect, and
lead to further migration, but the reason probably is related
Jordanians’ desire no to be blamed for their inadequacy and inability to
prevent the massacre.

Basically the
report based on Al-Mokhtars’, Hasan Mahmoud Hudaib, testimony, most of which
was supported by the reports preserved at Zionist Military archives, In addition to that, the well known Zionist
writer, Amous Kinan, who participated in the massacre, during an interview with
the Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakry, in late 90s, for his documentary
1946.

The Mokhtar said that half hour after Al-Jumaa
mass prayer a 20 armored military
vehicle entered the village fron Al-Qybiah’s direction, simultaneously it was
waged from the other direction, the 20, lightly armored, village defenders were
paralyzed by the surprise, the soldiers
open the fire from their machine guns and mortars, while they were heading
toward the center of the village in semi circular motion, they surrounded the
village from three directions leaving the east direction open to force the 6000
villagers out, but it did not went by their plan, so they jumped out their
vehicles and started killing people randomly, villagers seek refuge in
Al-Masjed or the nearby cave called Eraq Al-Zagh.

The Mokhtar
continued that when he got the courage he went back to the village the next
day, and he was horrified by the scattered corpses at Al-Masjid, and on the
roads, it was for men, women, and children, his father was among these corpses,
after that he went to the cave, Eraq Al-Zagh, where its entrance was covered by
tens of corpses, according to the Mokhtar, 455 Pearson were missing, among them
170 women and children.

The soldiers who
participated in this outrageous massacre described what have happened their by
saying:

Skulls of infants
were smashed, women were raped and burned alive inside their houses, and men
were stabbed to death, these descriptions were not narrated years after the
massacre, but after few days in report to the supreme command. This outrageous
barbaric atrocities perpetrated against the villager was, also, supported by
the atrocities committed in
Al-Tantoura, Al-Safsaf, and Saasaa, which were traced by dates and verbal
testimonies.

Source:

Genocide in Palestine

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