Deir Yassin: Quick Facts

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Remains of Deir Yassin

Map showing the United Nations partition plan for Palestine adopted in 1947, with areas color-coded to indicate proposed Jewish state, Arab state, and a separate Jerusalem district. The map includes key cities and regions, borders with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, and highlights the Mediterranean coast.

Large group of Palestinian refugees, including women and children, gathered outside a building with tents and shelters spread across the landscape in the background during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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