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/ Cam,Tech./W.31 "i _I) _: -.,_$ ;,',f .f-Yc- _IJ_ . - O14R IJGuINneA L1:E94N9G LISH,,_ _.__I ^----l----~!'. - REPORTS UBMITTED BY~&'iULB REFUGEEC rJNGREsL$_'-O_FI RMLL-A HTHE DAWAYMEMHA SSACRE,ILittle is'known about the brutal massacre of Arab peasants in :the village of Dawaymeh on 28/10/48, Dawaymeh is situated a few :kilometres West of Hebron, It had a population of six thousandpeople, Some four thousand Arab refugees had taken refuge in the :village prbw to the massacre, The reason wl:ly se little is knownabout this massacre which, in many respects, was more brutal thanthe Deir Yassin massacre, is because the A
.rab Legion ( the Armyin Control of that area) feared that if the news was allowed tuspread, it would have the same effect t>n the moral of the peasantrythat Deir Yassin had, namely to cause another flow of Arab refugees&For the benefit therefore rJf the Arab delegations assembledhere in Lausanne, a brief account of the massacre is presented here.This account is taken out of a SWCJrn Statement given by HassanMahmaud Ihdeib, the Mukhtar of Dawaymeh village,, I have personallyinterviewed the Mukhtar and found him to be a reasonable quiet man9not given tLI eXageratbJneHe reports that half an hour after the midday prayer an Fridaythe 28/10/48, he heard the sound of shooting from the Western sideof the village, tin investigation, he observed a troop of some twentyarmoured cara approaching the village on the Qubeiba - Dawaymeh?zmii9! a s ;..I: cn:"; t;z'&,p::a l;proachizg along the Beit Jibrin -Dawaymeh .road and other armoured vehicles approaching from the direction ofMafkhax - Dawaymeh, The village had only twenty guards, They wereposted on the Western side of the village,When the armoured cars were within half a kilamater from thevillage, they opened fire from automatic weapons and martars andadvanced on the village in a semL' -circular movement? thereby surm'rounding the village on the Western, Northern and Southern sides,A section of the armowed cars entered the village with automatic ,weapons blazing - Jewish troops jumped put of the armoured cars and4) sproad oti through the streets of the village firing promiscuouslpat anything they saw, The villagers began to flee the villagewhile the older QIleS took shelter in the Mosque and others in anearby cave called Iraq El Zagh. The shooting continued forabout an hour,The following day, the Mukhtar met with the villagers andagreed to return to the village that night to find out the fateof those that had stayed behind, He reports that In the Mosquethere w”re the bodies of s~mu sixty persons, most of them were .,men of advsnced age who had taken shelter in the Mosque. His Ifather was among them, He saw a large number of bodies in thestreets, bodies of men, women and children, He then went to theCave of Iraq El Zagh, He found at the mmuth of the cave thebodies of eighty five persons, again men, women and children,The Mukhtar then carried out a census of the inhabitantsof the village and found that a total of 455 persons was missingof whom 280 were men and the rest women and children,There were other casualties among the refugees, the numberof which the Mukhtar was unable to determine,The Mukhtar explicitly states that the village had nrJtbeen called upon to surrender and that the Jewish troops had notmet with any resistance,It need hardly be menticrned that this brutal and I.XlproV~ke&attack (33XLred during the truce,Secre.ತಿ
.rab Legion ( the Armyin Control of that area) feared that if the news was allowed tuspread, it would have the same effect t>n the moral of the peasantrythat Deir Yassin had, namely to cause another flow of Arab refugees&For the benefit therefore rJf the Arab delegations assembledhere in Lausanne, a brief account of the massacre is presented here.This account is taken out of a SWCJrn Statement given by HassanMahmaud Ihdeib, the Mukhtar of Dawaymeh village,, I have personallyinterviewed the Mukhtar and found him to be a reasonable quiet man9not given tLI eXageratbJneHe reports that half an hour after the midday prayer an Fridaythe 28/10/48, he heard the sound of shooting from the Western sideof the village, tin investigation, he observed a troop of some twentyarmoured cara approaching the village on the Qubeiba - Dawaymeh?zmii9! a s ;..I: cn:"; t;z'&,p::a l;proachizg along the Beit Jibrin -Dawaymeh .road and other armoured vehicles approaching from the direction ofMafkhax - Dawaymeh, The village had only twenty guards, They wereposted on the Western side of the village,When the armoured cars were within half a kilamater from thevillage, they opened fire from automatic weapons and martars andadvanced on the village in a semL' -circular movement? thereby surm'rounding the village on the Western, Northern and Southern sides,A section of the armowed cars entered the village with automatic ,weapons blazing - Jewish troops jumped put of the armoured cars and4) sproad oti through the streets of the village firing promiscuouslpat anything they saw, The villagers began to flee the villagewhile the older QIleS took shelter in the Mosque and others in anearby cave called Iraq El Zagh. The shooting continued forabout an hour,The following day, the Mukhtar met with the villagers andagreed to return to the village that night to find out the fateof those that had stayed behind, He reports that In the Mosquethere w”re the bodies of s~mu sixty persons, most of them were .,men of advsnced age who had taken shelter in the Mosque. His Ifather was among them, He saw a large number of bodies in thestreets, bodies of men, women and children, He then went to theCave of Iraq El Zagh, He found at the mmuth of the cave thebodies of eighty five persons, again men, women and children,The Mukhtar then carried out a census of the inhabitantsof the village and found that a total of 455 persons was missingof whom 280 were men and the rest women and children,There were other casualties among the refugees, the numberof which the Mukhtar was unable to determine,The Mukhtar explicitly states that the village had nrJtbeen called upon to surrender and that the Jewish troops had notmet with any resistance,It need hardly be menticrned that this brutal and I.XlproV~ke&attack (33XLred during the truce,Secre.ತಿ
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مذبحة الدوايمة
مذبحة الدوايمة
هناك القليل مما هو معلوم عن المذبحة الوحشية التي استهدف الفلاحين العرب في قرية الدوايمة في 28/10/1948، تقع قرية الدوايمة على بعد عدة كيلومترات الىالغرب من مدينة الخليل، يبلغ عدد سكانها 6 الاف ، و قد التجأ اليها حوالي 4 الافقبل حدوث المذبحة، و تعزى قلة المعرفة عن هذه المذبحة_ و التي من وجهة نظري كانت اكثر وحشية من مذحة دير ياسين، الى تكتم القوات العربية ( القوات التي كانت مرابطةفي تلك المنطقة) لخوفها من تأثير هذه المذبحة على معنويات الفلاحين و حدوث موجة اخرى من الهجرة كالتي حدثت بعد مذبحة دير ياسين.و هذا الموجز عن المذبحة قدم من اجل الوفد العربي المجتمع في لويزيان، و قداخذت هذه من "حسن محمد هديب" تحت القسم، و قد قمت بنفسي بمقابلة المختارو قد وجدته منطقيا و هادئا و لا يعمد الى المبالغة.و قد افاد بانه بعد نصف ساعة من صلاة الجمعة يوم 28/10/1948 سمع دوي اطلاقالرصاص من الجزء الغربي من القرية، و لدى استطلاعه لامر راى حوالي عشرين سيارةمسلحة تقترب من القرية من طريق قبيبة-الدوايمة، بالاضافة الى سيارات مسلحة اخرىتتجه الى القرية مكن طريق مفخر-الدوايمة، و لم يكن في القرية سوى عشرون رجلا مسلحامتمركزين في الجهة الغربية من القرية.و فيما كانت السيارات المسلحة على بعد نصف كيلو من القرية فتحت النار مناسلحتها الالية و قذائف المورتر و اتقدمت لتحيط بالقرية بشكل نصف دائري من الجهاتالغربية، الجنوبية و الشمالية، و قد دخل جزء من هذه السيارات المسلحة الى القريةفيما كانت اسلحتها الالية لاتزال تطلق الرصاص، و قفزت مجموعة من اليهود من هذهالسيارات و راحوا يطلقون الرصاص بشكل عشوائي على كل ما يتحرك، و فيما اخذ الفلاحونبالفرار لم يجد كبار السن من ملجأ الا في مسجد القرية و الاخرين و جدوا الملجأ فيكهف قريب من القرية يدعى " عراق الزاغ " و قد استمر اطلاق النار ذاك الىما يقرب الساعة.و في اليوم التالي التقى المختار بالقرويين و قرروا ان يعودوا الى القريةفي تلك الليلة لمعرفة مصير من خلفوهم ورائهم، و قد افاد المختار انهم وجدوا مايقارب من 60 جثة في المسجد معظمها تعود الى كبار السن الذين التجأوا الى المسجد، وقد كان والده من بينهم. كما انه راى اعداد كثيرة من الجثث ملقاة في الشوارع، جثثتعود لرجال و نساء و اطفال، و من بعدها اخذوا طريقهم الى "عراق الزاغ"حيث وجدوا على بدايته 85 جثة تعود –مرة اخرى- لرجال و نساء و اطفال.و بعد ان قام المختار بتعداد لسكان القربة وجد ان هناك 455 شخصا مفقودا 280منهم من الرجال و البقية كانوا نساءا و اطفالا. و كان هناك ايضا العديد من القتلى بين التجأواالى القرية قبل المذبحة الا ان المختار كان غير قادر على تحديده.و قد افاد المختار ان القرية لم تدعى الى الاستسلام كما ان القوات اليهوديةلم تجد هناك مقاومة تذكر.و من الجدير بالذكر ان هذه المذبحة الوحشية و غير المبررة قد وقغت اثناء الهدنة.
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