The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 145)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 145)

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would five, not only myself, but all those with me, food
and shelter."*
The villagers also suffered punishment from the British authorities for
helping the rebels. The British knew that the only way to crush the revolt
a part from using military force, was to find a way to stop the villagers
giving aid to the rebels. So they imposed cordons, searches and curfews,
demolished houses, killed or arrested villagers and imposed collective
fines. In spite of these harsh measures, the people in the villages and
towns still helped the rebels.
"Once the British put a cordon around Taybah. They
wanted the villagers to tell them the whereabouts of ’Anif
*Abd al Razigq, but nobody talked. they then imposed a
large sum of money on the village as a collective fine. The
villagers refused to pay, and all of them decided to leave
the village. When the British came back to collect the fine,
all the inhabitants had moved to the mountains, leaving
only the Mukhtar in the village, with the keys to all our
houses. When the British found that no one was in the
village, they left. We stayed in the mountains for three
days, and when we returned the British had gone."7
ill rf.$
Guerrilla Warfare, as defined by the Encyclopedia Brittanica is :
"a type of warfare characterised by irregular forces,
fighting small-scale, limited actions; generally in
conjunction with an larger, political-military strategy,
against orthodox forces. Guerrillas are usually nondescript
in dress, unconventional in weapons and equipment, lack
formal supply lines, and employ highly unorthodox tactics.
In addition to extremely mobile aggressive operations,
these tactics embrace all aspects of psychological warfare,
including the use of sabotage and terrorism."
The Palestinian rebel forces conducted guerrilla warfare against the
British regular forces during the revolt of 1936-39. Being irregular forces,
the rebels used all sources available to them in this war, including
employing the relations and networks families and clans.
56 Rain al-Salfiti, personal interview, 28/6/1984. Salfit,
ablus.
2 Salih Baransi, personal interview, May 1985, London.
Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 15th edition, Chicago, 1985, vol.
» p.544,
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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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