Yusra Abu Hana, born in
1915, resident of Yarmuk camp
The shooting began near
midnight. Mudallala arrived from ZuluŁ She told us: "Isa Dassuki
is wounded, perhaps
dead. And when Su'd al-Filu ran to him to give him something to
drink,
they fired at her and
killed her."
One of my brothers, Fadl was also killed; the other, Faysal, was
wounded. He had hidden in
the stable but he was
caught: he was smoking and the odor of his cigarette gave him away.
They wanted to kill him
but the mukhtar of Zichron Yaacov, who had good relations with my
father, interceded for
him. It should be remembered that we treated the people of his
colony well when
they came on the beach of
Tantura.
Hasan 'Ammuri was an only child and his mother had been 45 years old
when she gave
birth to him. He took
part in the fighting. They promised him his life if he surrendered,
but
they shot him the minute
he gave them his weapon.
On the beach where we were assembled, they stripped us of
everything: watches, bracelets,
money, identity papers.
On the way to the beach, the door of one of the houses was open
and I saw a pile of
bodies inside. Not to mention the people they had gathered and
executed in the
cemetery. More than fifty. All the ones they killed had no weapons,
shot
down in the streets of
the village or inside houses. On the beach, they led men away in
groups but no one came
back. Towards noon, the killing ended when the mukhtar of
Zichron Yaacov came with
a written order. A group of some 40 men who had Just been led
away thus were saved.
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