Al-Bassa 1938: The day Britain burned Palestinian village, burned children alive

At dawn on September 7, 1938, as the sun rose over the hills of Galilee, the village of Al-Bassa reeked of gunpowder and smoke. British soldiers, smiling with satisfaction, set houses ablaze one after another, while the screams of women whose children had vanished in the flames were lost in the indifferent Palestinian sky.