Nuseibeh was born in 1922 in Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine . For his secondary education he went to Victoria College , Alexandria , Egypt between 1936 and 1940 . He started his university studies at the American University of Beirut , completing a BA in Political Science in 1943 . Afterwards he returned to Jerusalem to study law between 1943 and 1948 . During this time Nuseibeh became a broadcaster and chief news editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service , where he reported about the Deir Yassin massacre . Nuseibeh was told by the Palestinian Arab leader Husayn al-Khalidi to fabricate stories about atrocities such as rape and a higher death count . In a BBC documentary , made fifty years after the start of the conflict , Nuseibeh said that fabricating the stories was one of their biggest mistakes , as it led to Palestinians fleeing the country . His studies carried him abroad once more when he went to study at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey , United States . There he earned a Master of Public Affairs in 1952 . At the Politics Department of Princeton he earned a further MA in 1953 and his PhD in 1954
Deir Yassin massacre
Deir Yassin massacre
Hazem Nuseibeh