Press of Atlantic City · Atlantic City, New Jersey · 12 April 1948
CP-1948-013
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 into trucks, paraded through Jewish areas, spat on and stoned.”
The attack at Deir Yassin was carried out by the Jewish extremist groups, Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang. Haganah, the Jewish militia, disclaimed direct control over the operation and described it as an outrage. Representatives of the international Red Cross who moved into Deir Yassin said the 254 Arab bodies counted included those of 130 women and children.
One hundred and fifty bodies had been thrown into a cistern, complicating the task of removal.
Context added by this archive
Deir Yassin, three days after, under the subhead “Women Stoned.” The paragraphs beneath the quotation name the groups, record Haganah’s disclaimer and give the Red Cross count. Whoever is being quoted is named above this part of the column, which is not in the clipping.
Cite this clipping
"Women Stoned," Press of Atlantic City, 12 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-013
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