What really happened in Deir Yassin? Who was responsible? What has its effect been? Read on to find out... Early in the morning of Friday, April 9th, 1948, commandos of the Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin. Deir Yassin was a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside the area that the United Nations recommended be included in the future Jewish State. It had a peaceful reputation and …showed first 75 words of 351 total…

…showed last 75 words of 351 total…Irgun's purpose for massacring a whole village was, and it is considered by some that they mainly wanted to scare the Arabs of Palestine by inflicting large casualties, as well as for economic reasons. The massacre had a great effect in the fleeing of Palestinian Arabs during the war, thereby aggravating the Palestinian refugee problem. It also increased demands for further Arab military development and has affected the relationships between Arab and Israeli government forces.