Interview with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī Khalīl مقابلة مع محمد عبد الغني خليل

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nabi‘ al-Qasṭal (Water resource); Jisr al-Khallādīyah (Bridge).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Antiquities; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British high commissioner; British officers; British police forces; British-Jewish relations; Dairy products; Farm animals; Germans; Irrigation; Jewish gangs; Jewish immigration; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Neighboring villages; Orchards; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Skirmishes; Trade; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Aḥmad, Musṭafá ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-ʻAlī, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-‘Uthmān, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); Bishr, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Battles; British-Jewish relations; Discrimination practices; Executions; Haganah; Imprisonment; Interrogations; King David Hotel bombing, 1946; Nahalal (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Torture

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Akka Battle, 1948; Boats; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Forced migration; Haifa (Palestine); Military training; Military withdrawal; Police; Ports; Relief; Resistance movements; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Fakhrī Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān Muḥammad (Martyr); Naṣṣār, ʻAlī (Wounded).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Courage; Defense; Emotions; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Home bombing; Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Military withdrawal; Mortars; Muftis (Muslim officials); Safad (Palestine); Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Zionist occupation; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAbdullāh, King of Jordan, 1882-1951

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Hādī, Amīnah (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jisr al-Khalādīyah (Bridge).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Armed patrols; Betrayal; Defense; Displacement; Military orders; Military superiority; Mines; Psychological warfare; Resistance movements; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Tanks; Village liberation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist propaganda; Ṣaffurīyah Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Sa‘īd Salīm (Martyr); al-Jabr, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Martyr).

Families: Sursuq.

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Keywords: Animals; Arrest; Betrayal; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); British high commissioner; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish Agency for Palestine; Land appropriation; Land policy; Land sale; Means of transportation; Moroccans; Mortars; Peasants; Personal belongings; Resistance movements; Return; Seeking refuge; Shafā ʻAmrū Battle, 1947; Weapons; Weapons confiscation; Yugoslavs; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance lader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Defense; Displacement; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād al-Muqaddas; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Suffering; Weapons confiscation; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sālim, Mifliḥ (Martyr); al-Kharbūsh, ‘Alī (Martyr): al-Ṣāliḥ, Khālid Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Yāsīn, Aḥmad Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); ʻAṭīyah, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Ambushes; Border crossing; Collaborationists; Demonstrations; Fidā’iyyīn; Floods; Health services; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Lebanese Army; Martyrs; Naturalization refusal; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Settlement policy; Smuggling; Suffering; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Work; Zionism