The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 77)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 77)

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(1) a committee for propaganda, which was composed of Muslim
scholars and sheikhs to preach for the revolution; (2) a committee for
military training; (3) a committee for supplies, to collect money to buy
arms and food; (4) a committee for intelligence to gather information
about the movements of British police and troops; and (5) a committee
for political contacts.2
Most of the published references do not agree on the number of the
members of al-Qassam’s movement, the number varying between 50 and
200 men, all of whom were said to have been concentrated in northern
Palestine. Kayyali suggests their number to have been two hundred with
a further 800 sympathisers, and suggests that al-Qassam had no real
contact with the peasants and workers in the southern and central
Palestine.27 According to Sheikh Mohammad Hanafi, who served as al-
Qassam’s deputy and treasurer for the organisation and who was
entrusted by al-Qassam with contacts in all the circles of the Mujahidin,
the number of trained and initiated men was more than 1000.” He states
that while the movement was strongest in the northern districts, al-
Qassam had followers and secret circles throughout most of the
countryside, even as far south as Gaza.25 Another early member of the
movement, Ibrahim Sheikh Khalil also agrees with Sheikh Hanafi that
the number of Mujahidin was more than 1000.% Arabi Badawi estimated
that the number lay between two to three hundred men”
al-Qassam became widely known in Palestine after his death in a clash
with the British police in Ya’bad near Jenin in November 1935. However,
this clash was not the first military operation of the movement. al-
22. Subhj Yassin, al-Thawra al-Arabiya al-Kubra, Cairo, 1957,
p23.
23.A.W. Kayyali, Palestine, A Modern History. p180
24.Abdullah Schleiffer, "The Life and Thought" in Islamic
Quarterly, (August 1981) p.75
25.Ibid. p.75 (Aug )P
26.Ibrahim al-Sheikh Khalil (Abu Is’af), Shu’un Filastiniya.
Vol. 6/7, no. 7 (March 1972), p10
27.Arabi Badawi, Personal interview, 23/5/84. Qabalan, Nablus

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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Sonia Nimr

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