The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 115)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 115)

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Mount Hermon, on the borders between Palestine and
Lebanon. We met in a village called | Suhatra and went
round other villages - forty or fifty of us would go to a
village and gather the men. We went to the wire and
started to cut 1t down. It was six meters high and ten meters
deep. | That night we cut down twenty-two kilometers of
wire."8
By the end of 1937 the revolt had been organised in such a way that its
commanders in the mountains had set up rebel courts to solve the
domestic grievances of the villagers who boycotted government courts in
accordance with the call to civil disobedience. These courts also tried
collaborators and a system of punishment was introduced. There were
even appeal courts, an intelligence system, an administration and a
network of messengers who helped maintain contact between the rebel
commanders and the public, and between rebel commanders and the
secret organisations operating in the towns, as well as with the central
committeé in Damascus. Each leader also had his own secretariat (see
details in chapters five and six).
The last three months of 1937 witnessed a series of violent attacks
against Jewish buses, telephone wires, the IPC pipeline, and against
military posts and targets. They also witnessed some of the biggest battles
since 1936 between rebel forces and the British troops. One such was the
battle of Fassotah on 14th November 1937 in Galilee, in which the rebels
were led by Khalil Mohammad Issa (Abu-Ibrahim al-Kabir), with the co-
ordination of three other regional commanders, Sheikh Mahmoud Salim
al-Makhzumi, ’Abdullah al-Sha’ir and "Abdullah al-Asbah.“ Another was
the battle of ’Arab al-’Aramsheh on the 12th November 1937 near Shafa-
"Amr in which the rebels were mostly Galilee bedouins.*’ The battle of
83 Mastata al-Bakri, personal interview, 20/2/1985, al-Be’neh,
alilee.
84 Hussein Baytam, personal interview 21/2/85, Abu-Snan,
Galilee. Ibrahim Hanna persona interview 23/1/85 al-
Be’neh, Galilee, and Bulus Bolus, personal interview,
20/3/85 al-Be’neh, Galilee, all fought in this battle.
85 Ibid.
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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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