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Jewish house destroyed in Motza during Arab riots, 1929
“A scene of utter desolation and horror, of Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, of little children with numerous knife wounds and of whole families locked in their homes and burned to death, was described by a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, who succeeded in reaching this city today… The only comparison I can think of is the Palestine riots of 1929. I found Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, greybearded Jews stabbed to death, little Jewish children dead of numerous knife wounds and whole families locked in their homes and burned to death by the rioters… (Constantine, Algeria, 1934) https://web.archive.org/web/20220408061236/https://www.jta.org/archive/algeria-riots-checked
Palestine, 24 August, 1929: “The Jewish village of Motza, west of Jerusalem, had good relationships with the Arab community. The Haganah had offered to provide protection for the Jewish families in the town, but many such as the Makleff family rejected the offer as they did not believe the Arabs would harm them” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots

The October 7th Hamas-Islamic Jihad massacre, as recently described by BBC, and elsewhere, looks frighteningly like the descriptions of the 1934 Constantine (Algeria) massacre and the 1929 Motza and Hebron massacres. So, Palestinian Arabs have done this before, as have Algerians. The Israeli kibbutz members who believed the Gazan Palestinians were their friends, either didn’t know history, or thought times had changed. The biggest change is that the British were shocked in the 1920s and 30s, but many don’t seem to care today. Furthermore, the earlier 1929 and 1934 reports didn’t include broken pelvises from gang rape, as on October 7th.

High approval rating for Hamas’ October 7th attack shown in Palestinian survey report. Less than 13% said that they disapproved the attack.

Maybe people lied because they were fearful, or maybe it was fabricated by Hamas supporters. However, neither the ideologies of Arab nationalism (pan-Arabism), nor of pan-Islamism, have room for Jews. They have a chart showing the opinion of men vs women, but they are almost exactly the same, i.e. within the margin of error.

“JTA reported on August 8, 1934:

A scene of utter desolation and horror, of Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, of little children with numerous knife wounds and of whole families locked in their homes and burned to death, was described by a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, who succeeded in reaching this city today.

“It will take days before the world will obtain a true picture of all the atrocities committed by the Arabs during the pogrom on the Jewish quarter,” the correspondent wired.

“The only comparison I can think of is the Palestine riots of 1929. I found Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, greybearded Jews stabbed to death, little Jewish children dead of numerous knife wounds and whole families locked in their homes and burned to death by the rioters.

“Just as in Palestine in 1929, the lists of the dead and injured run into the hundreds with no official estimates available. The hospitals are filled with Jewish victims and the doors of the hospitals are besieged with half-crazed wives and mothers seeking to ascertain whether their loved ones are among the dead or injured, or whether they succeeded in escaping the pogrom bands.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Constantine_riots https://web.archive.org/web/20220408061236/https://www.jta.org/archive/algeria-riots-checked

Motza murders, 24 August, 1929:

“The Jewish village of Motza, west of Jerusalem, had good relationships with the Arab community. The Haganah had offered to provide protection for the Jewish families in the town, but many such as the Makleff family rejected the offer as they did not believe the Arabs would harm them.[46] In the afternoon of 24 August, Arabs from neighbouring Qalunya entered Motza and invaded the house of the Maklef family. Mr. Makleff [he] was murdered along with his son[47] and two rabbis (including the Gargždai-born Shlomo Zalman Shach [he] who had been invited to the household as guests. Mr. Maklef’s wife, Chaya, was tortured by the Arabs who hanged her on a fence. The two daughters of the family were raped and murdered.[46] Several houses including the Maklef’s were set on fire.[48]
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Hebron massacre, 24 August
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On 20 August, Haganah leaders proposed to provide defence for 600 Jews of the Old Yishuv in Hebron, or to help them evacuate. However, the leaders of the Hebron community declined these offers, insisting that they trusted the A’yan (Arab notables) to protect them.[50][51]
On 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Arab mobs attacked the Jewish quarter killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed between 65 and 68 Jews[52][53] and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated.[11][54][55] Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, “The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood.” Sir Walter Shaw concluded in The Palestine Disturbances report that “unspeakable atrocities have occurred in Hebron.[56]
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The lone British policeman in the town, Raymond Cafferata, who, “killed as many of the murderers as he could, taking to his fists even,” was overwhelmed, and the reinforcements he called for did not arrive for 5 hours–leading to severe recriminations. Hundreds of Jews were saved by Arab neighbours who offered them sanctuary from the mob by hiding them in their own houses[58] while others survived by taking refuge in the British police station at Beit Romano on the outskirts of the city. When the massacre ended, the surviving Jews were evacuated by the British.[11][59]…” Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots#Riots

After almost two months and many complaints the BBC finally decided to “hear”:
“Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears
5 Dec 2023 By Lucy Williamson
Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.

Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.

Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.

Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.

Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.

Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE (Inappropriate for minors)”
Excerpts:
“In the video, the woman known as Witness S mimes the attackers picking up and passing the victim from one to another.

“She was alive,” the witness says. “She was bleeding from her back.”
She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim’s body during the assault.

“They sliced her breast and threw it on the street,” she says. “They were playing with it.”
The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.

“He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn’t even pick up his pants; he shoots and ejaculates.”
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“Some women were raped before they were dead, some raped while injured, and some were already dead when the terrorists raped their lifeless bodies,” his statement says. “I desperately wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do.”
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“One of the body-collectors volunteering with the religious organisation Zaka described to me signs of torture and mutilation which included, he said, a pregnant woman whose womb had been ripped open before she was killed, and her foetus stabbed while it was inside her.
Another, Nachman Dyksztejna, provided written testimony of seeing the bodies of two women in kibbutz Be’eri with their hands and legs tied to a bed.

“One was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed,” his statement says.
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“For the first five days, we still had terrorists on the ground in Israel,” May Golan said. “And there were hundreds, hundreds of bodies everywhere. They were burned, they were without organs, they were butchered completely.” https://web.archive.org/web/20231205174333/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181

Motza murders, 24 August, 1929:
“The Jewish village of Motza, west of Jerusalem, had good relationships with the Arab community. The Haganah had offered to provide protection for the Jewish families in the town, but many such as the Makleff family rejected the offer as they did not believe the Arabs would harm them.[46]

In the afternoon of 24 August, Arabs from neighbouring Qalunya entered Motza and invaded the house of the Maklef family. Mr. Makleff [he] was murdered along with his son[47] and two rabbis (including the Gargždai-born Shlomo Zalman Shach [he] who had been invited to the household as guests. Mr. Maklef’s wife, Chaya, was tortured by the Arabs who hanged her on a fence. The two daughters of the family were raped and murdered.[46] Several houses including the Maklef’s were set on fire.[48]

One of the houses burned in the riots
When the British police and Haganah respondents arrived to the town they brought Chaya to the hospital but she died of her injuries. The survivors were three children who managed to jump out the balcony[48] and hide in the Jewish Broza family’s house. In later years one of these children, Mordechai Maklef, would become the Israel Defense Forces’ third chief of staff.[49]

Hebron massacre, 24 August
A survivor mourning in the aftermath of the massacre in Hebron.
Main article: 1929 Hebron massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
On 20 August, Haganah leaders proposed to provide defence for 600 Jews of the Old Yishuv in Hebron, or to help them evacuate. However, the leaders of the Hebron community declined these offers, insisting that they trusted the A’yan (Arab notables) to protect them.[50][51]
On 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Arab mobs attacked the Jewish quarter killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed between 65 and 68 Jews[52][53] and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated.[11][54][55] Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, “The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood.” Sir Walter Shaw concluded in The Palestine Disturbances report that “unspeakable atrocities have occurred in Hebron.[56]

The Shaw report described the attack, “Arabs in Hebron made a most ferocious attack on the Jewish ghetto and on isolated Jewish houses lying outside the crowded quarters of the town. More than 60 Jews – including many women and children – were murdered and more than 50 were wounded. This savage attack, of which no condemnation could be too severe, was accompanied by wanton destruction and looting. Jewish synagogues were desecrated, a Jewish hospital, which had provided treatment for Arabs, was attacked and ransacked, and only the exceptional personal courage displayed by Mr. Cafferata – the one British Police Officer in the town – prevented the outbreak from developing into a general massacre of the Jews in Hebron.”[57]

The lone British policeman in the town, Raymond Cafferata, who, “killed as many of the murderers as he could, taking to his fists even,” was overwhelmed, and the reinforcements he called for did not arrive for 5 hours–leading to severe recriminations. Hundreds of Jews were saved by Arab neighbours who offered them sanctuary from the mob by hiding them in their own houses[58] while others survived by taking refuge in the British police station at Beit Romano on the outskirts of the city. When the massacre ended, the surviving Jews were evacuated by the British.[11][59]….” Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots#Riots


– Source of pictures, public domain: “Jewish house destroyed in Motza during Arab riots, 1929” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_house_destroyed_in_riots,_Motza_1929.jpg

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