History says that they have been the most humane armed services in the region. [4], Deir Yassin has been identified as one of the villages given as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 12th century,[5] However, in 1136 Fulk, King of Jerusalem confirmed it was a casale under the Knights Hospitallers. Some houses outside the fence of the hospital grounds are used for residential and commercial purposes, or as warehouses. Deir Yassin today, part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, an Israeli psychiatric hospital. The Arabs rejected the UN proposal and the conflict became even more intense. Where Zionist colonists blocked the road from Deir Yassin to Jerusalem. Water supplies: Two springs, one to the north and the other to the south which provided the village with fresh water supply. The source says: "By the summer of 1949, 5 acres of olive groves had already been ploughed over and 300 crates of plums had been marketed from the village orchards. News of the killings, amplified by Arab media broadcasts of atrocity, triggered fear and panic among Palestinians, who in turn increasingly evacuated their homes. And given that the village today is just 1600 metres from, and in clear sight of, the Jewish Holocaust shrine at Yad Vashem, Deir Yassin speaks to the relationship between victim and perpetrator and to the whole issue of Jewish suffering and the Holocaust. [32] The built-up area of the village was 12 dunams. The village was named in honor of a certain Sheikh Yassin whose tomb was in a mosque, or shrine located just outside the village,[4] on a high spot, dominating the surrounding area. “Deir Yassin,” the imperishable words of my grandmother continue to resonate with me each day for she made me promise to never forget, and that’s a promise I intend to keep to her. April 9, 1948 is engraved in the collective memory of the Palestinian people — it is the day the Zionist movement carried out the Massacre of Deir Yassin. If you try to find it on a map today, you will be disappointed, as the village has been completely razed to the ground. Even though a Jerusalemite, Nabil did not know his way around the ‘other’ side of town, and we hailed a couple of guys who looked Palestinian to ask for directions. Dozens of Jews and Arabs yesterday marched around the fence surrounding Jerusalem's Kfar Shaul psychiatric hospital, the site of the Deir Yassin massacre, to commemorate its 55th anniversary. The business encouraged the wealthier inhabitants to invest in trucking while others became truck drivers. For Palestinians, Deir Yassin became the symbol of the sudden loss of their homes and homeland and the near destruction of their society, a situation which endures until today. Sep 27, 2012 - April 9, 1948 The Deir Yassin massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine. Bu… 09, 2007 at 10:19 AM montfu65@hotmail.com. At that time, Deir Yassin also had a bakery, two guesthouses, and a social club—the "Renaissance Club", a thrift fund, three shops, four wells and a second mosque built by Mahmud Salah, an affluent resident. On April 9, 1948, more than one hundred innocent men, women and children of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin in Jerusalem were brutally murdered by armed members of the Zionist terrorist organizations, the Irgun and the Stern gangs. Deir Yassin is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop, a short distance from the west of Jerusalem. [33], Khirbet Ayn al-Tut had a population of 39 in 1596, during early Ottoman rule. 'Within a few hours, half the village wasn’t there any more,' Zettler wrote of the day. or. [23] The incident became known as the Deir Yassin massacre. April 9, 1948 is engraved in the collective memory of the Palestinian people – it is the day the Zionist movement carried out the Massacre of Deir Yassin. “Deir Yassin,” she says with a childlike innocence in her voice as she recalls sweet memories before her entire world was completely denatured by evil. . One tall cypress tree still stands at the center of the cemetery. "Deir Yassin massacre" gives about 31 500 hits (same yesterday) Oh, and: Deir Yassin-deniers gives about 828 hits ;-D Regards, Huldra 04:04, 8 July 2006 (UTC) You are arguing that although it is a fallacious argument the numbers supposedly speak for themselves. Deir Yassin is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem District, located to the west of it "5 km away", with an area of no more than 12 dunums.