Two different images emerged of Ramle under occupation . Khalil Wazir , who later joined the PLO and became known as Abu Jihad , was evicted from the town with his family , who owned a grocer 's store there , when he was 12 years old . He said there was fear of a massacre , as there had been at Deir Yassin , and that there were bodies scattered in the streets and between the houses , including the bodies of women and children . Against this , the writer Arthur Koestler ( 1905 – 1983 ) , working for '' The Times '' , visited Ramle a few hours after the invasion , and said people were hanging around in the streets as usual . A few hundred young men had been placed in a barbed wire cage , and were being taken in lorries to an internment camp . Women were bringing them food and water , he wrote , arguing with the Jewish guards and seemingly unafraid . He said the prevailing feeling seemed to be relief that the war was over
Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin massacre
1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle