 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - 1947 United Nations Partition Plan yePalestine yakaisa Ayn Karim muJerusalem enclave yakagadzirirwa kutonga kwepasi rose. Muna February 1948 varwi 300 vomumusha vakasimbiswa neuto reArab Liberation Army rakanga rakashongedzerwa nezvombo zvikuru revarwi vokuSyria, uye musi waMarch 10 boka guru revarwi vokuIraq rakasvika mumusha, rakateverwa mumazuva mashomanana nevarwi vokuEgypt vanenge 160. Musi waMarch 19, vagari vomumusha wacho vakabatana nevaenzi vavo vokune dzimwe nyika pakurwisa motokari dzevaJudha dzaiva mumugwagwa waibva kuTel Aviv uchienda kuJerusarema. Nokukurumidza pashure pokuuraya kwaApril 1948mumusha uri pedyo weDeir Yassin 2 km kuchamhembe, vakadzi vakawanda nevana mumusha vakabviswa. 