The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 214)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 214)

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death penalty for carrying arms. In December 1937 Charles Taggart was
appointed as Police Inspector-General, being brought to Palestine for his
experience in guerrilla warfare in Bengal. He suggested the occupation
of Arab villages for prolonged periods to prevent the rebels from using
them as bases or getting aid from them, as well as to protect those who
gave information to the security forces?’ The same method was adopted
by General Haining in 1938. As Fawzi Jaradat recalled.2*
"The English used to come and make a cordon around the
village. Around thirty thousand soldiers would come. They
would say the men should go to the house of Mohammad
al-Hamid, his house was big, and the women should go to
‘the mosque. They would bring a man with them sitting in
the tank [armoured vehicle], he was able to see us, we were
not able to see him. He would point out at a number of
men, and they would arrest them. Last time they came they
started to arrest the village headmen. My Uncle was
arrested, and when he was released he found his house
demolished. Also the headman from the lower part of the
village Sharif al-Hussein was also arrested. They wanted to
know where Abu-Durra was" ”
In 1938 the military used other punitive measures against the population,
such as mass arrests, long curfews, extensive demolition of homes,
collective fines and sometimes humiliation.
"Once I saw an incident with my own eyes. They [the
British], stopped a convoy of cars, and forced the Arab
passengers to get out. They took them to the Jewish
agricultural settlement of al-Shajara. The streets of this
settlement were not paved. The British soldiers forced the
Arab men to collect stones and clean the streets of the
settlements. They forced them to collect the stones in their
own Fezzes and the Jews were watching them, the idea was
to humiliate these Arab men on one hand and to instigate
national antagonism between the Arabs and Jews.The
British also used to force Arab men to clean their army
camps.»
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26 Minutes of Colonial Office Conference 29 October 1937. FO
371/20818
27 Meeting between Tagart, Petrie and Wauchope 17 December
1937. CO 733/332/12
28 General Haining’s Report to War Secretary; Report on the
operations carried out by the British forces in Palestine
and Trans-Jordan, from Ist April to 18th May 1938, 4th
July 1938. CO 733/379 y
29 Fawzi Jaradat, personal interview 4/2/1985, Silat al-
Harithiya, Jenin.
30 Saliba Khamis, personal interview, 19/2/1985 Haifa

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

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

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