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09/04/1948 |
Deir Yassin massacre by
Zionist Itzel and Stern gang units. Caused general panic
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The former Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin terror gang (IZL or ETZEL) committed the
famous massacre which resulted in the murder of 245 people, including more
than 70 women and children. It is worth noting that 25 of the survivors
were paraded in West Jerusalem as trophies, who later were brought back to
Deir Yassin and murdered.
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Deir Yasin inhabitants were
completely ethnically cleansed. Many who survived the massacre ended up in
refugee camps around Jerusalem and some in Amman, Jordan.
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Read more in English at www.deiryassin.org
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| 10/04/1973 |
PLO leaders Kamal Adwan, Abu
Mohammad Yussef Al-Najjar and Kamal Nasser, assassinated in their homes in
Beirut by a special Israeli military unit. General Barak believed involved.
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| 11/04/2003 |
Thomas Hurndall shot close to
Rafeh refugee camp, Gaza Strip, died January 2004.
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He was a media student from
Manchester University and he had previously served as human shield in Iraq.
While touring the Gaza strip, he was shot in the act of trying to rescue a
mother and children under fire from an Israeli tank.
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Hurndall suffered
brain damage beyond recovery and Dr Jihad Abud Daya who treated him at the
European Hospital in Khan Yunis said he required surgery that could not be
delivered in Gaza strip. Some Israeli reports claimed that Tom was shot at
when carrying a gun but then again eyewitnesses and photographs on the
spot make it clear that he was unarmed and wearing an orange vest.
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Read more in English at www.tomhurndall.co.uk
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| 17/04/1988 |
Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir
in Tunis by Israeli forces. Rabin, Peres and Shamir "credited".
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Khalil al-Wazir aka Abu Jihad
born 1935 was believed to be the military strategist and second in command
of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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| 24/04/1950 |
West Bank is formally brought
under full Jordanian control.
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