Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini

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Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini

Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini (* 1907 in Jerusalem , † April 8, 1948 in al-Qastal ; Arabic عبد القادر الحسيني, DMG ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusainī ) was a Palestinian nationalist politician, publicist and military leader. In 1933 he founded the paramilitary organization for jihad (Arabic: Munazzamat al-Jihad al-Muqaddas ), which he commanded together with Hasan Salama as the Army of the Holy War in the Palestinian War .

Life

family

He came from the influential al-Husaini family in Jerusalem. His father, Musa Kazim al-Husaini, was the mayor of Jerusalem. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husaini , a Nazi - collaborator , was his uncle. Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini had four children - Haifa, Musa, Gazi and Faisal .

Political activities

Al-Husaini graduated in chemistry from the American University of Cairo and organized the Congress of Educated Muslims , which was directed against alleged discrimination against Muslims in the allocation of administrative posts in the Mandate Palestine . After completing his training, he accepted a post in the British Mandate Administration, but then moved to Hebron during the Arab uprising from 1936 to 1939 to lead the uprising against the British. He rose to become general secretary of the Arab Party of Palestine and worked as editor-in-chief of the party's newspaper Al Liwa and other publications including Al-Jami'a al-Islamiya ( The Islamic Community ).

During the uprising, Al-Husaini gave up the privileged lifestyle of an urban notable and at times lived with peasant insurgents in their mountain hiding places. This role increased its popularity within the Palestinian population.

Exile and war

In 1938 al-Husaini was expelled and fled to Iraq in 1939 , where he took part in the 1941 coup against the pro-British government supported by Hitler's Germany . In 1946 he went to Egypt . He then secretly returned to Palestine, where, as the commander of the Army of the Holy War, he organized the siege of Jerusalem . From January to March 1948 he ordered several car bomb attacks on Jewish targets. The campaign hit the newspaper Palestine Post (3 dead), the popular Ben-Jehuda-Strasse shopping street (46 dead) and the headquarters of the Jewish Agency (13 dead). The US consulate in Jerusalem was also badly damaged. Fawzi al-Kutub, trained in Nazi Germany during World War II, served as al-Husaini's bomb expert . Al-Husaini fell during Operation Nachshon while trying in vain to retake Castel , which had recently fallen into Israeli hands and which controlled the Israeli supply routes to Jerusalem. His death had a disastrous impact on the morale of his troops.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Segev: Once upon a time there was a Palestine, Munich, 2006, pp. 554f
  2. ^ Benny Morris: 1948 - The First Arab Israeli War. New Haven, 2008, pp. 107f
  3. ↑ Ulrich Sahm : Fawzi al Kutub: The darkest figure in German-Jewish-Israeli-Palestinian history , Hagalil from August 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME al-Husaini, Abd al-Qadir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husayni, Abd al-Qadir al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian field commander of the Army of the Holy War in the Palestine War
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1948
Place of death Al-Qastal