The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 76)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 76)

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in their shanty towns the workers, the dispossessed peasants who were
evicted from the land, the quarry workers and seamen, all were poor and
largely ignored by the traditional leadership. They found in al-Qassam
not only a leader but also one who was most able to express the feelings
that they had towards the British Mandate and the Zionist movement,
and they found in his methods an alternative to those adopted by the
traditional leadership.
Selecting his disciples from these people, al-Qassam started the
second stage towards forming his movement. His organisation was
secretive and he formed his men on the basis of ’cells’, each cell being
formed by a few men who would work and train together, with one man
among them to be the link between the cell and other cells. This method
kept the organisation secret. The training with weapons was carried out
in the same secretive way and took place in the mountains around Haifa
and remote areas. Arabi Badawi recalls the way that he was trained:
"Sheikh Nimr al-Sa’di was living in an area called:"the
forest of Shefa Amr". It is now called Sa’dia, I went with
him there. That place was so isolated that you could form a
state here and nobody would notice. There we trained with
weapons. Sheikh Nimr trained us how to use a rifle, how to
hit a target correctly and how to clean and take care of the
rifle."2°
Hasan Shiblaq was also a member of the al-Qassam organisation and
he underwent similar training in a different area, and was trained by al-
Qassam himself:
"Before going to the Carmel we used to meet at one of the
three mosques, al-Istiqlal, al-Jami’ al-Kabir or al-Jami’ al-
Saghir. We would go in threes to the quarries... al Qassam
used to accompany each group of three, and at the quarry
he would teach us how to dismantle a rifle, how to put it
back together and how to clean it."2!
In addition to the fighters in his organisation, al Qassam also formed
five committees by 1935 to organise the movement:
20.Arabi Badawi, personal interview, 23/5/84, Qabalan, Nablus
21.As quoted in Ali Hussein Khalaf, Tajribat al-Sheikh. p18
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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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