The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 155)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 155)

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(depending on his area of command) to get the weapons, or send a
trustworthy person to buy them. In some cases, a leader asked arms
dealers to provide him with the required quantity of arms.
"One day, after the prayers, I asked some of the Christian
men to gather. and asked each of them to pay £P10. I
collected £P120, which I gave to Bulus who was an expert
on weapons, and another man. I asked them to go to Syria
and buy arms for us. Bulus would choose the arms and the
other man would pay for them. | told them to leave the
arms in Syria, because someone else was going to smuggle
them into the country. When the rifles came, I gave five to
the Muslims and three or four to the Christians in the
fasil"™!
Mubadda Farhat, who was a fasil leader in Majd al-Kurum village, went
himself to buy the arms.
"when we asked the people to arm themselves, some did
not know how or where to get arms. So, they gave me the
money, and I went to Lebanon to buy the arms for them.”
Although some of the rebels paid for their own arms, and the villages
also provided the arms of their fasils, there were large quantities of arms
which were sent by the central committee for the Jihad in Damascus to
the leaders of the areas, who in turn would distribute them among the
fasa’il in their areas, 2
The most difficult task in the acquisition of arms was smuggling them
into the country. This needed the special expertise of professional
smugglers and it became even more difficult after the British authorities
became aware of the arms traffic, and began to take steps to stop it.
"The British had put a fence along the borders with Syria
and Lebanon to stop arms smuggling. We cut the fence and
opened a passage on the Lebanese __ borders. We actually
wanted to go to Syria,but we took the way from Lebanon.
We entered a village called Bint Jubeil, but someone had
informed the French authorities about our presence there,
and we were arrested"
Tt A A A rc
1] Ibrahim Hanna, personal interview, 23/1/1985 al-Be’neh,
Galilee.
12 Mubadda Farhat, personal interview 21/3/1985, Majd al-
Kurum, Galilee.
13 Izzat Darwazah, al-Qadiya al-Filastiniya. p.213
14 Rabah al-’Awad, personal interview 17/2/1985, al-Mazra‘h,
Galilee.
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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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رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

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