The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 104)
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- عنوان
- The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 104)
- المحتوى
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"Abd al-Rahim Haj Mohammad "Arif ’Abd al-Raziq, Sheikh Farhan al-
Sa’di, Sheikh ’Atiya Mohammad ’Awad, Fakhri ’Abd al-Hadi, and
Mohammad al-Salih. At this meeting he accepted from them a written
declaration in which they recognised him as the Commander-in-Chief of
the Arab Revolt in Palestine.
al-Qawugqji organised the rebel forces and divided them into four
fighting units and an intelligence unit. The fighting units were 1) a
Palestinian unit lead by Fakhri "Abd al-Hadi, 2) an Iraqi unit, under the
command of Jasim ’Ali, an Iraqi volunteer who entered Palestine with al-
Qawugqji, 3) a Syrian unit under the command of Sheikh Mohammad al-
Ashmar, who came with al-Qawuqji with the Syrian volunteers, 4) a
Druze unit led by Hamad Sa’b, a Druze from Lebanon. The intelligence
unit was headed by Munir al-Rayis, a Syrian journalist. He had also led a
fighting unit during the Babl’a battle. Later the main responsibility of this
unit was to gather information and to publish communiques and
announcements to then public.”
During the first battle of the Arab rebel joint forces and the British,
near the village of Bal’a near Tulkarm on the 3rd of September 1936, al-
Qawuqji was disappointed with the Palestinian rebels, who retreated
from the battle ground . However, this behaviour represented not so
much a fear of fighting as a display of mistrust towards al-Qawuqji. Some
of the rebels were suspicious of him, deferring their trust; some feared
that he was a British spy, sent by Major John Bagot Glubb (or Abu
Hnaiyk, as the Palestinians and Trans Jordanians used to call him), who
was then the Commander of the Trans-Jordan Desert Patrol Force, to
reveal the position of the rebels and to lead them into a battle with the
British troops in which they would be trapped.» This belief was repeated
48 Porath, The Palestinian National Movement. pp.188-9
*9Yusut Rajab al-Radi’i, Thawrat 1936-39, Beirut, 1982, pp47-
50 Munir al-Rayis, al-Kitab a}-Dhababi, Damascus, 1976, p.235 - تاريخ
- 1990-10
- المنشئ
- Sonia Nimr
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