The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 101)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 101)

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telephone lines, and ambushing army and police patrols and convoys on
the main roads. As well as launching attacks against Jewish settlements,
al-Qassam’s followers also began a warfare against collaborators.” The
best known of these operations was the killing of Ahmad Naif of the
Palestine Police who had played a major role in the investigation of the
al-Qassam movement, leading the Police to Ya’bad and to the clash
which resulted in the death of al-Qassam and three of his followers.
During the strike, armed units began to form in almost all parts of the
country, and the rebels grew in numbers. In the Tulkarm area, ’Abd al-
Rahim Haj Mohammad formed a group of armed men and began to
attack the British army and Police convoys on the roads to Nablus and
Jenin.* Shakir Milhim, who was personal assistant to ’Abd al-Rahim,
recalls how the group began to form and operate:
“First there was the strike. Everybody joined in the strike.
Then we began to hear of some people who had obtained
guns, and then how four or five of them went to the road
and ambushed the army convoy on its way to Jenin. After
that, the British who knew who the attackers were, started
to look for them. They came to my house many times
looking for ’Abd al-Rahim, and since then he never slept
in his house in Dhinnabah. People started to gather around
him, joining the revolt, and little by little they became a
large group's
Another group was formed which operated both in the Tulkarm area and
the South by ’Arif ’Abd al-Raziq.*
In the Jenin area a few other groups were formed. One was
formed by Sheikh ’Atiya, a Qassamite from Balad al-Sheikh near Haifa,
and this operated in the area between Jenin and Haifa.” Another rebel
group in the area was led by Sheikh Farhan al-Sa’di, a Qassamite.** In the
32 Samih Hammoudeh, al-Wa’i Wa al-Thawra. p.100
33 Ibid. pll7
34 Ziyad ‘Udeh, ‘Abd al-Rahim al-Haj Mohammad, al-Zarqa-
Jordan pp15-16.
35 Shakir Milhim, personal interview 6/4/1985, Dhinnabah,
Tu lkarm.
36 Kayed Bal’um. Bodyguard of Arif Abd al-Raziq. Personal
interview 22/4/85 al-Taybah, Triangle.
37 Samih Hammoudeh, al-Wa’i Wa al Thawra. p.107
38 Ibid pp 101-104 93

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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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