From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Jonathan Ofir was published by Mondoweiss on February 7, 2016.
“‘Barbarism by an educated and cultured people’ — Dawayima massacre was worse than Deir Yassin”
On Friday, February 5th 2016, Haaretz published an article in Hebrew by Israeli historian Yair Auron, which covers one of the biggest massacres of 1948. The massacre is of Al Dawayima, west of Al-Khalil (which is often referred to as Hebron). In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Israeli historian Benny Morris refers to this as a massacre of “hundreds.”
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