Deir Yassin Village and Massacre (2012)

Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Sahera Dirbas | 75 minutes

On 9 April 1948, the Irgun and other Jewish militias entered the peaceful village of Deir Yassin, 5 km west of Jerusalem. 250 men, women and children are massacred, the survivors are driven out. The news of the massacre spreads, sowing the seeds of terror and precipitating the exodus.
70 years later, five Palestinian men and women, survivors of the massacre, are still alive and remember.