The Record Journal · Meriden, Connecticut · 12 April 1948
CP-1948-014
"Horrible Massacre"
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The Jewish extremist groups, Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern gang, took Deir Yassin Friday and still are entrenched there. All Arabs and many Jews now describe the Irgun-Stern attack on the village as a 'horrible massacre.' A Red Cross check showed many women and children among the 254 Arab dead there.
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""Horrible Massacre"," The Record Journal, 12 April 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-014
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