Original sentence: Israel was attacked twice by its neighbours, in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and 1973 Yom Kippur War, and launched two invasions of its own, of Egypt in 1956 and - in what it characterised as a pre-emptive strike - of a combined Arab alliance in the 1967 Six Day War
Edited sentence: An account of this barbaric massacre was given by Jacques de Reynier, the Chief Delegate of the International Red Cross , who was able to reach the village and witness the aftermath of the massacre: "Three hundred persons" he said, "were massacred ... without any military reason or provocation of any kind; old men women, children, newly-born were savagely murdered with grenades and knives by Jewish troops of the Irgun, entirely under the control of their chiefs.Deir Yasin Massacre: In order to push the unarmed defenseless Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes.Israel was invaded twice by its neighbours, in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and 1973 Yom Kippur War, and launched two invasions of its own, of Egypt in 1956 and - in what it characterised as a pre-emptive strike - of a combined Arab alliance in the 1967 Six Day War.Jewish terrorist groups such as Irgun Zwei Leumi were brought in when other methods failed.On 9th April 1948, the Irgun Zwei Leumi led by Menachem Beigin, a former Israeli Cabinet Minister and former leader of the Opposition in the Israeli Parliament, attacked the small Arab village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem