Women Stoned

Transcribed from the clipping

"In the early morning Friday they (the Jews) swooped in and practically exterminated women, children and old men. The only ones who managed to escape were the young men. After that massacre in which some 250 were killed by guns and grenades the remaining 150 women and children were dumped..."

Context added by this archive

Deir Yassin, as told by a survivor, three days after.

Cite this item

"Women Stoned," Press of Atlantic City, 12 April 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-013

Elsewhere in the archive

Grief, anger for 71 children killedPress of Atlantic City · 19 July 2014 · the same newspaper
JEWS TAKE TWO FORTS FROM ARABSMt. Vernon Register-News · 1948 · the same year
CRISIS NEARS CLIMAXChicago Tribune · 9 February 1948 · the same year
ISRAEL CALLS FOR U.N. STEPS TO STOP ARABSChicago Tribune · 9 February 1948 · the same year

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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