The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 120)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 120)

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became the legal center of the large illegal, military organisation, the
*Haganah’. They organised themselves on the lines of an army and
conducted searches in the villages, committing atrocities against the Arab
villagers, to terrorise them into not supporting the revolt. A letter sent by
the Sheikh of Kufur Masr in the sub-district of Beisan describes a search
conducted in his village by the Jewish armed forces:
"An ultimatum of fifteen minutes was granted for the
villagers to produce seven rifles, failing which the lives of
fifteen villagers would have to be sacrificed as an
alternative......... When the time limit was up, the officer in
charge ordered the male villagers to line up and counted
them picking out every eighth person. The three victims,
whose ill-fortune had caused them to be sacrificed, were
manacled to each other, led about _fifteen yards from the
whole assembly and with their backs to the firing squad
were shot and killed like dogs. They finished this gala
entertainment by beating the crowd of villagers who were
standing dumbfounded, looking at what they could only
interpret as a horrible nightmare."
In addition to the searches of the ’official’ Jewish army against the
villages, there were also many attacks on Arabs carried out by Jewish
extremists. For example, on the 6th and 25th July 1938, bomb explosions
in the Arab fruit market in Haifa caused the death of 74 Arabs and
injured a further 129. There were also bomb outrages in Jerusalem and
Jaffa. ™® However, despite the measures taken by the government and
the terrorist attacks of the Jewish supernumeraries and Zionist
extremists, the revolt continued, and gained increasing support and
volunteers from both villages and towns.
The strength of the revolt was at its peak during the summer of
1938. The rebels were able to occupy some towns and actually turn them
into no-go areas for the British; some of these towns were only occupied
for a few hours, however, which was more a display of strength and
control by the rebels. For example, on the 22nd August the town of
99 A letter by Irsheid al-Zu’bi to the District Commissioner
of Galilee, CO 733/371/2
100 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, A Survey of
Palestine. prepared in Dec, {ots and Jan 1946, Vol.1, p.45

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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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