Newly uncovered documents have shed light on the massacre of Palestinians during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the state of Israel.. Based on the letters of soldiers, unpublished ...

The Irgun was joined by the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, who subsequently succeeded Begin as prime minister of Israel in the early ’80s, and also by the Haganah ...

Israeli historians and Israeli society have been able to admit to the massacre in Deir Yassin by attributing it to the right-wing group Irgun, but have covered up or denied other massacres ...

The Irgun was joined by the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, who subsequently succeeded Begin as prime minister of Israel in the early ’80s, and also by the Haganah ...

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 ...

The most notorious of the civilian massacres that resulted was Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem, where more than 100 adults and children were slaughtered by Irgun forces.

Irgun and the Stern Gang, breakaway paramilitary groups, drew up separate plans to take the strategic Deir Yassin in a pre-dawn raid on 9 April 1948, even though the villagers had signed a non ...

Following five years of research, Prof. Eliezer Tauber of the Dept. of Middle East Studies at Bar Ilan University has concluded there was no massacre in Deir Yassin, but the false rumors ...

Deir Yassin Massacre (April 1948) ... The carnage was carried out by Irgun and Stern Gang groups, led by Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, respectively.