The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine placed ' Ayn Karim in the Jerusalem enclave intended for international control . In February 1948 the village 's 300 guerilla fighters were reinforced by a well-armed Arab Liberation Army force of mainly Syrian fighters , and on March 10 a substantial Iraqi detachment arrived in the village , followed within days by some 160 Egyptian fighters . On March 19 , the villagers joined their foreign guests in attacking a Jewish convoy on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road . Immediately after the April 1948 massacre at the nearby village of Deir Yassin ( 2 km to the north ) , most of the women and children in the village were evacuated
Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin massacre
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