Interview with Yūnus Maḥmūd Shaʻbān

Biography:	The interview was recorded on April 9, 2003 with Yūnus Maḥmūd Shaʻbān, male, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine. He was a policeman with the British Police Forces.
Interviewer:	[Zaydān, Maḥmūd] [
Interviewee:	Shaʻbān, Yūnus Maḥmūd
Place of Origin:	Ḥiṭṭīn
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	video
Duration:	02:02:33
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	2003-04-09
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3jg87
Subjects:	Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948 -- Atrocities. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Zionist terrorism -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. Battles -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Police -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. ʻAylabūn, Palestine, Massacre of, 1948. Crimes against humanity -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948.
Significant Figures:	Bolam, Simon (Policeman); Bellin, Ram (Policeman); Mughrabī, Abū ʻĀṭif (Revolutionary); Zaʻrūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Aṣbaḥ, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary); Za‘rūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Hind, Salīm (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); Shaʻbān, Sulaymān Qaddūrah (Municipal council); ʻAzzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Municipal council); al-Rabāḥ, Ismāʻīl (Resistance fighter); Shabāyṭah, Saʻīd al-ʻAbd (Resistance fighter); al-Muhanná, Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); Shaʻbān, Yūnus Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Muṣṭafá Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Ṣālih, Faḍl (Resistance fighter); Yūnus, al-ʻAbd (Policeman); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).
Families:	al-Fahhūm.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	al-Munṭār (Maqām); al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).
Table of Contents:	Rebelling against the British authorities and escape. (@ 00:00:32) Political conditions and activity during the Arab revolt. (@ 00:12:4) Agriculture and Palestinian resistance. (@ 00:28:19) Palestinian resistance. (@ 00:41:46) Ḥiṭṭīn battle and village preparations. (@ 00:54:20) Withdrawal from Ḥiṭṭīn and exodus to exile. (@ 01:13:53) Arab Salvation Army withdrawal from Safad. (@ 01:42:8) Nostalgia and hope of return. (@ 01:46:54)