Deir Yassin was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 inhabitants about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Jerusalem. During the 1948 Palestine war, the village was largely destroyed and its population expelled in the Deir Yassin massacre which killed around 107 of its residents on April 9, 1948. The attack on Deir Yassin was carried out by the Jewish paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi, with support from the Haganah. In 1949 the village was resettled by Jewish Israelis, becoming part of Givat Shaul and the State of Israel. Some of Deir Yassin's former buildings are today part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, an Israeli public psychiatric hospital.