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استشهاد عز الدين القسّام في يعبد
Exact day20 November 1935
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 20 November 1935 Shaykh Izz al-Din al-Qassam and four of his men were killed in the forest of Ya‘bad, in the Jenin district, after six hours of fighting a much larger British force. His death helped ignite the Great Palestinian Rebellion of 1936–39.
His biography in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that al-Qassam and his fighters went to the forests of the village of Ya‘bad, in the district of Jenin, where for six hours on 20 November they fought a much larger British force. Shaykh Qassam and four of his men were killed, and the others were wounded or captured. He was buried in the cemetery of Balad al-Shaykh, in the Haifa district.12
Link to this chapterThe same biography records that his killing was to a large extent instrumental in igniting the Great Palestinian Rebellion of 1936–39.3
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Great Revolt
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Biography text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enwhere for six hours they fought a much larger British force on 20 NovemberLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Biography text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enShaykh Qassam and four of his men were killed, and the others were wounded or captured.Link to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Biography text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enHis assassination was to a large extent instrumental in igniting the Great Palestinian Rebellion (1936–39).Link to this citationarticle · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Maher Charif, biography of Izzeddin al-Qassam, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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