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From Alfred Lilienthal’s ‘The Zionist Connection’.
The initial resistance of the men of Deir Yassin to the attack was soon overcome, and all of the town’s inhabitants were ordered out into a square, where they were lined up against the wall and shot . According to the recital in 0!Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, the daughter of one of the principal families of Deir Yassin, declared that she saw “a man shoot a bullet in the neck of my sister Salhiyeh, who was nine months pregnant. Then he cut her stomach open with a butcher’s knife. Another woman was killed when she tried to extricate the unborn infant from the dead mother’s womb. A sixteen- year-old survivor, Naaneh Khalil, claimed she saw a man take “a kind of sword and slash my neighbor Jamil Hish from head to toe and then do the same thing on the steps to mv house to my cousin Fathi.” According to the accounts of survivors, the female members of the two terrorist groups matched the savagery of their male counterparts. “Bit by bit, Deir Yassin was submerged in a he11 of screams, exploding grenades, the stench of blood, gunpowder and smoke. Its assailants killed, they looted, and finally they raped.” Another survivor, Safiyeh Attiyah, saw one man open his pants and leap on her. “I screamed,” she said, “but around the other women were being raped, too. Some of the men were so anxious to get our earrings they ripped our ears to pull them off faster.”