Word: deir
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...most notorious incidents that took place was the massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin, a village outside Jerusalem. On April 9, 1948, the Irgun, a right wing faction of the Jewish militia, massacred 300 men, women and children. In the words of Jacques de Reynier, Chief Delegate of the International Red Cross, the Irgun members killed their victims "Without any military reason or provocation of any kind." British documents and Red Cross sources state that the attackers simply "lined men, women and children up against the walls and shot them...
Nasha't Muhammed Hussein, 35, will suffer more than most if he is expelled from Israel. Two years ago, he was stabbed seven times in the back by fellow Palestinians in his village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank for ignoring a strike. Now he sells olives from a small shed in Tel Aviv's vegetable market, which employs hundreds of Arabs from Gaza. His wife and seven children live in the nearby Israeli-Arab town of Jaffa, changing apartments every three months to avoid detection. "If I'm sent back, I'll be killed," he says...
...village of Deir Dibwan, northeast of Ramallah, the newer houses are made of rich blond limestone, with lemon trees in the front yards and, on the roofs, miniature Eiffel Towers to brace television antennas. The village has simultaneously the smell of goats and an air of affluence. It is a theme park of Palestinian authenticity, a once-was village sustained by money from America. Deir Dibwan has a population of 8,000. At any given time, some 4,000 are in the U.S. making money...