Deir Yassin? Hadassah hospital convoy?
A word re researchers on the battle of Deir Yassin. After reading from both sides.... 1. It happened BEFORE the modern State of Israel was established. 2. Accounts tell of at least some of Deir Yassin Arabs in arms and in battle, battling this group of 100 of early Zionists fighters (at the time, radicals). If to take an example from a source that quotes both sides, it might explain even a panic and total fear by the Zionist side (which might have led to a spiriling fight). As they described Arabs hiding guns in their robes surprisingly firing at their captors after surrendering: Jordan, Second Edition, Hal Marcovitz, Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., 2009, Culture, p.39 By the spring of 1948, there appeared to be no hope for a peaceful resolution. Both sides took up arms. One of the first major battles was at Deir Yassin, an Arab village that overlooked the highway leading to Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was considered strategically important because a well-armed group of soldiers hidden ...