After the 1949 armistice between Israel and its Arab neighbours there were frequent deadly incursions by one side or the other in to neighbouring territory and in the years after 1949 " Israeli forces killed thousands...[of]...Palestinians trying to return to their homes to reclaim lost property" Speaking in 1956 Major-Genral Burns chief of the UN did not give a time scale but said that Israel “Had killed four Jordanians for every Israeli killed by Jordan troops”, he said th

The Deir Yassin massacre carried out in April 1948 is probably the most well-known massacre carried out by zionist paramilitary groups...