On This Day

Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.

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29 February

deir yassinOn this day in 1948, Jewish terrorist group LEHI mined a train on the Cairo-Haifa line north of Rehovot, killing 28 British soldiers and wounding 35. A month later LEHI mined the train again near Binyamina, a Jewish town near Caesarea, killing 40 and wounding 60. The casualties were all civilians, mostly Arabs. None of the soldiers on the train were injured. Trains on that line had been bombed multiple times in 1947 by LEHI and another Jewish terrorist group, Irgun.

See the post for February 12th on the LEHI support for Nazi Germany until 1921

LEHI self-identifed as "terrorists" who used "terrorism" to achieve their political goals.

"The ceasefire declared by [Irgun] in 1939 after World War II had broken out led to the withdrawal of a group of the organization’s members, under the leadership of Yair Stern, to form the Lehi. More than any other Jewish organization, the Lehi viewed acts of terrorism as legitimate tools in the realization of the vision of the Jewish nation and a necessary condition for national liberation."
Perliger and Eubank, Middle Eastern Terrorism, p37

The Haganah gave LEHI and Irgun permission to clear the Palestinian village of Deir Yasin. Much later, upon retirement from the Israeli army in 1972, Col. Meir Pa'el finally testified about the behaviour of LEHI and Irgun that day:

"By noon time the battle was over and the shooting had ceased. Although there was a calm, the village had not yet surrendered. The Irgun and Lehi men came out of hiding and began to "clean" the houses. They shot whoever they saw, women and children included, the commanders did not try to stop the massacre ... I pleaded with the commander to order his men to cease fire, but to no avail. In the meantime, 25 Arabs had been loaded on a truck and driven through Mahne-Yehuda and Zichron Yosef (like prisoners in a Roman "March of Triumph"). At the end of the drive, they were taken to the quarry between Deir-Yassin and Givat-Shaul, and murdered in cold blood."
Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall, Zionist Revisionism, from Jabotisky to Shamir, p97

One of the LEHI killers has left his testimony. Yehuda Feder, whose nom de guerre was “Giora”, describes in detail his part in the massacre that took place there.

“This was the first time in my life that at my hands and before my eyes Arabs fell. In the village I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun. We confiscated a lot of money and silver and gold jewelry fell into our hands. This was a really tremendous operation and it is with reason that the left is vilifying us again.”