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| | Back to Shatilla By Ali Abunimah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | There is Umm Ismail, and one of their daughters, two grandsons, myself and some other visitors, and the children of Shatilla refugee camp who have brought me here to listen to Abu Ismail tell the story of the massacre in his village of Safsaf, near Safad, northern Palestine. |
 | | Abu Ismail was about twelve, and Umm Ismail about twenty-one when Safsaf was attacked by Zionist forces in October 1948, shortly after the fall of the city of Safad. |
 | | Safsaf, which had been the headquarters of an Arab Liberation Army battalion was the first village to fall in the Haganah's operation "Hiram", according to Walid Khalidi's `All That Remains'. |
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