The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 118)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 118)

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The British authorities took extreme measures in an effort to crush
the revolt and stop the villagers from supporting and hiding the rebels. In
addition to attacks against the rebel units, the authorities took various
extreme punitive measures against those supporting or suspected of
supporting or hiding rebels, such as collective fines, long periods of
curfew, demolishing houses, and searches, as well as mass arrests and
harsh sentences. Between 1937-39 the number of Arabs hanged exceeded
100. * Many people in Palestine still recall vividly the times when the
British conducted searches or imposed curfews on their villages:
"The English used to come to our village and ask the
Mukhtar to take the men to the village square, and the
women and children to the village mosque.We used to stay
from morning to evening. When we went to our houses in
the evening we found the oil, wheat, barley and flower all
mixed together and thrown on the beds. We found our
cattle, cows and sheep cut loose. One year this lasted for
thirty days. they used to come and do this every day. they
e me
used to make t n walk on prickly pear leaves bare
foot."
"There was a clash near our village Sha’ib [between the
rebels and the British forces]. After it was finished, and we
had buried the man from our village who was killed in the
clash, a mine exploded under an army vehicle. They [the
British] came, and surrounded our village, and then they
demolished more than forty or fifty of the houses in the
village"*
The demolition of these houses became the major reason for a big battle
in that area, on the 19th of July 1938, the Battle of al-Llayyat.
94 The names of many of those hanged are to be found in Subhi
Yassin, al-Thawra al-Arabiya. pp.35,36,55,210. Some of the
nanes are also in Akram Zueiter, al-Haraka al-Wataniya.
p.349,
95 Wife of Mohammad Jaradat, personal interview, 4/2/85 Silat
al-Harithiya, Jenin. This sort of action, the curfews and
searches in the houses, the damage to people’s belongings
and forcing men to walk on prickly pear leaves, was
repeated in almost all the interviews for this research.
96 Raji al-Khatib, personal interview, 22/3/85. Majd al-Kurum,
Galilee; Mubadda Farhat, personal interview, 21/3/85 Majd
al-Kurum, Galilee; Hussein Baytam. Personal interview,
21/2/85. Abu-Snan, Galilee and Fadil al-’Id personal
interview, 23/3/85, Kabul, Galilee. All of these men
fought in the battle of al-Llayyat, and said that the
demolition of many houses of Sha’ib was the reason for the
rebels to start the battle.
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

مجموعات العناصر

رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

كتب ٢ (صفحات)