Edited sentence: And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries.But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents.Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in Israel, inside the occupied territories, and outside in their diaspora.In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered.Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism.Some progress has been made.The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation.Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist