The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 78)
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- The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 78)
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Qassam and his Mujahidin started with military actions before 1935 and
were directed against the Jewish settlements in the hope that such attacks
would prevent the Jews from settling in Palestine.
The first of these attacks known to have been carried out by the al-
Qassam movement was against the al-Yajur settlement (near Haifa), on
the 5th April 1931, in which a Jewish car convoy was ambushed and three
were killed in the attack.* In the same year al-Qassam’s Mujahidin shot
and injured a man in the Nihlal settlement (also near Haifa). On the 16th
January 1932 a Jewish settler from the Balfouria settlement was killed.
On the 5th March of the same year another settler from Kfar Hasidim
was killed and on the 30th April 1932 two settlers were injured at the
Kfar Yehezqil settlement in another attack.” All these settlements were
near Haifa. On the 22nd December 1932 another attack was launched
against the Nihlal settlement and two settlers were killed as a result. This
last attack was significant in that it made the British authorities in
Palestine and the Zionist movement aware of the attack, as it was the
first in which bombs were used.” The British authorities announced in
the newspapers a reward of £500 for any one giving information leading
to the arrest of those who carried out the attack.»!
However, by the end of 1932 al-Qassam and his men decided to
suspend their attacks following the arrest of three of the men who
attacked Nihlal, one of whom was sentenced to death.”
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28.Bayan al-Hout, al-Qiyadat Wa al-Mu’assasat. p324 and
Y.Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement. p134.
29.Samih Hammoudeh, al-Wa’i Wa al-Thawra. pp.56-7
30.Ibid p.57
31.al-Jami’ah al-’Arabiya newspaper, 29/12/1932
32.Samih Hammoudeh, al-Wa’i Wa al-Thawra. p58
70 - تاريخ
- 1990-10
- المنشئ
- Sonia Nimr
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