The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 160)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 160)

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The method described above was the most primitive way of laying mines,
but it was widely used by rebels in all areas of Palestine. However, the
rebels were also learning and they became more inventive.
“Later, they began to be more creative, so they started to
use batteries to ignite the mine from a distance. They did
this by connecting a wire to a battery which was attached
to the mine. This way it was more practical and more
efficient. We started to use mines with batteries in 1938" 3!
The mines were mainly used on roads against military vehicles, and to
sabotage railways. The rebels also used cannon shells, stolen from British
camps, to make mines for demolishing railways and bridges, and these
were also used as land mines.22 For ammunition, they re-used empty
bullet shells, refilled with gun powder, to which they attached new caps, .
or they used old unexploded bullets collected after the Turkish army
evacuated the country, to which they also added new caps.*
There were some experts in repairing broken weapons and making
modifications for new ones. In the north of Palestine two weapons repair
experts were known (during the research, no other names were
mentioned)
"my father was an expert in repairing railways and
weapons. That’s why the Turks took him with them to
Syria and Trans-Jordan during the First World War. I
learned this skill from him when I was very young. Only I
and Philip from Tarshiha knew how to repair weapons in
the north of Palestine. All the Lebanese villages on the
Palestine borders came to me to repair their weapons. I
can repair all sorts of light weapons - Russian, English,
French, Turkish Italian. I also used to make artificial legs
which we [he and his father] made by hand, without using
any machines. When the rebels want to repair their
weapons they brought letters with them from their leaders
bearing the revolt’s seal"
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31 Bashir Ibrahim, personal interview, 15/7/1984. Zeita,
Tulkarm.
32 Yusif Rajab Radi’i, Thawrat 1936. p. 55
33 Bashir Ibrahim, personal interview, 15/7/1984. Zeita,
Tulkarm.
34 Bulus Hanna Bulus, personal interview, 30/3/1985 al-Be’neh,
Galilee.
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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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