Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir

Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir

Khalil Muhammad Issa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir, was a Palestinian Arab commander during the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine, participated in several battles with the Brits, assassination of moderate Arabs and in massacre of Jews. He collaborated with Nazi Germany.^[1]

Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir was the main Qassamite [jihadi] rebel leader in the Upper Galilee and was the only active rebel leader on the ground who was a member of the Damascus-based Central Committee of National Jihad.^[2]

Although based in Damascus, he regularly entered Palestine to assess his group's situation and distribute stipends. In 1938, he personally led an assault on Jewish neighbourhoods in Tiberias, resulting in the deaths of 19 Jewish residents.^[3] Some charged, it was aided by Nazis.

The Tiberias massacre, Oct 1938.^[4]^[5]

Report at the time: The Jewish neighborhood never had issues with its Arab neighbors. In-between their atrocious acts, the Arab attackers sat down and ate calmly at a house they invaded. Their "heroic" acts was aimed at defenseless. Brother and sister were found held together. People were burned, some while alive. Witnesses said orders were given over in a European language and an Arab official translated into Arabic to the large gang. There were screams to kill the Jews in Arabic and 'Allah Akbar.'^[6] Author:^[7]

Arabs stormed a Jewish neighborhood in Tiberias, killing 19 people, including 11 children.
The truck driver Alex Morrison arrived in town shortly after the attackers left. "They left behind one of the most horrible sights I have ever seen in my life," he later wrote: the place was littered with corpses, men, women and children. "The women's naked bodies testified that the assailants made the most horrific use of their knives," Morrison wrote.
In one building, probably a baby house, the scorched bodies of children were still burning; It was obvious that fuel had been poured on them before they were set on fire.

(There is a version that there was some Nazi link to the Arab gang as well.^[8]^[9])

Eliminating Arab moderates

Abu Ibrahim also oversaw the campaign to eliminate Palestinian Arab moderate individuals who cooperated with the British authorities in the Galilee.^[10]

Islamism

"Al-Kabir’s Islamic influence was fundamental to his commitment to the armed revolutionary line. In his memoirs, he justified his affiliation with (so-called) 'resistance' activities by stating: 'I had an old idea that the duty of every Muslim Arab is to defend his land and his nation. So when the Syrian revolution against the French came, I decided to join it, because I see no difference between Lebanon and Syria; they are all Arab countries. In the city of Haifa, we had a sheikh named Ismail al-Naqshbandi, a Syrian native of Kurdish origin who studied at al-Azhar. I went to him and expressed my desire to join the revolution in his country.'

Al-Kabir met Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam in Haifa in 1927 and became one of his followers.

His field experience was not limited to Palestine. Al-Kabir also participated in Rashid Ali al-Gaylani’s" (Arab-Nazi coup) "in Iraq in 1941. His affiliation with Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s line of thought was arguably a crucial factor in his adoption of a comprehensive notion of Arab-Islamic (so-called) 'resistance'. In the meantime, al-Kabir took military courses in Greece and Germany and graduated as a two-star officer."^[11]

1947/8

He returned to Mandatory Palestine and joined the so called "Salvation Army", after regaining regional command of Galilee.

After 1948 He left to Damascus and Amman, where he died in poverty in 1979.

Palestinian Authority

In 2002, Palestinian Authority PM Muhammad Shtayyeh honors terrorist murderers, including al-Kadir.^[12]

References

↑ Arab anti-Semitism, and the Nazis By Lyn Julius. Jewish Journal, February 8, 2018.
Although he was not the only collaborator with Nazism – Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Rashid Ali al-Kelani, Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir, Hassan Salama and Arif Abd al-Raziq spring to mind – the role played by Palestinian leader and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in fomenting anti-Jewish incitement and violence, not just in British Palestine but across the Arab world, is key. From 1931, he conflated “Zionists” with “Jews.” Any Jewish community became fair game for collective punishment – and still is.
↑ Kedourie, Elie (2015), "Qassamites in the Arab Revolt, 1936–39", Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-317-44272-1 [1].
↑ Lachman, Shai (2015), "Qassamites in the Arab Revolt, 1936-39", Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel, Routledge, ISBN 9781317442721 [2]
↑ The Forgotten Tiberias Pogrom of 1938, JVL.

(October 2, 1938). The year 1938 was especially violent in the Holy Land. It was the midst of a violent three-year nationalist uprising known as the Arab Revolt. Led by the father of Arab nationalism in Palestine, Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arabs founded the Arab High Committee and set three key demands for ending the violence: ending all Jewish immigration, banning land sales to Jews, and giving Arabs control of Mandatory Palestine, leaving them to deal with the Jews. A steady stream of incitement in schools, the Arab press, and houses of worship ensued, along with a call to boycott Jewish products. In April 1936, Arab terrorists attacked a Jewish bus and killed two. This event unleashed a cycle of tit-for-tat violence which saw the death of many Jews and Arabs. One area that saw many violent attacks on Jews was Tiberias. In May 1938, a Jew was killed by an explosion and, in September, three Jews were murdered, and a Jew and an Arab were wounded by four Arab terrorists. Tiberias was a poorly defended city .... On October 2, an Arab terrorist cell occupied the hills surrounding Tiberias. They waited for the cover of darkness to begin their well-planned operation. At 9 p.m., the terrorists cut the telephone lines into Tiberias so the victims could not call for assistance. Two terrorist cells hiding in the hills entered city from the north and south. Five minutes later, the terrorists remaining in the hills sounded a shrill whistle loud enough so both cells could hear it. This signaled the beginning of the attack. The small local police force was taken by surprise. The terrorists first hit the office of the British district commissioner, the police station, and the quarters where British police were housed hoping to weaken or eliminate any defenses. The attackers then went to the central synagogue and set it on fire. The caretaker of the synagogue Ezekiel Katz, 42, was trapped inside and burned to death.
The terrorists also burned down the local post office before making their way to the Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Shmuel, north of the old city, armed with bombs, rifles, daggers, and torches. That is when the “systematically organized and savagely executed” carnage began.
The terrorists set fire to several Jewish wooden homes. They entered the house of Joshua Ben-Arieh where he, his wife Shoshanna, and one of their sons, Arieh, were stabbed to death and then set on fire. There younger son Moshe, only 18 months old, was shot to death. Visiting the Ben-Arieh family were three siblings – Chaim age 12, Rivkah age 10, and Ezra age 8. The terrorists stabbed and burned to death all three children. While Shimon Yochanan Mizrahi was on patrol in another part of town, terrorists stormed his house and killed his wife Rachel, 26, and all five of their children ages 12, 5, 3, 2, and 1. The Arabs also attacked a third house, the home of Menachem Kabni, 60, and his wife Dora, 40. Both were American citizens. Mr. Kabni had been the beadle of a synagogue in New York for 30 years. Rabbi Asha Werner, who had been visiting Tiberias at the time, reported that the infiltrators stabbed the couple to death and burned their bodies. Miraculously, Mr. Kabni’s sister Esther managed to escape the execution.
In total, the terrorists set six Jewish houses on fire and savagely murdered anyone they could find inside. Two supernumerary Jewish constables, Israel Bookman and Zvi Chatzkeleviz, and an additional Jewish man, Jacob Gross, died in a gun fight valiantly trying to stop the attacks. Several other Jews were seriously injured. All but four of the victims were stabbed to death and set on fire...
↑ Haboker - הבקר, 4 October 1938.
20 Martyrs of Tiberias - The blood of a mother was mixed with the blood of her six children.

‬20 חללי טבריה - נתערבו דמה של אם בדם ששת ילדה.
↑ ha-Tsofeh - הצפה, 9 October 1938.

Tiberias.
What happened on the night of the horrors, on the eve of Tishrei, in Tiberias is not one of the events we are used to during the three years of horrors that befell the Jewish community in the country. This is not at all what the government has been calling the "Arab uprising" lately, but riots by gangs of murderers, who came and attacked a quiet and safe neighborhood, veteran residents of the Tiberias suburb.
And as evidence, the attackers were not gangs of murderers from outside, but neighbors of Tiberias from the nearby villages to the north and south, the villages of Lubia and Tebgha and adjacent to them. And not out of excitement and resentment came this cruel scoundrel act. Out of peace of mind, crowds descended on Kiryat Shmuel, which never angered the residents of the Arab neighbors.
This gang of murderers went up in the suburbs at the beginning of the evening at 9 o'clock and concentrated on one street called D [Dalet] Street and did their cruel acts quietly and peacefully without any disturbance for two hours and after they finished their actions they left the neighborhood not out of panic and persecution. Eyewitnesses, peeking through the crackers of the windows in the dark, saw that they had entered a house that had a kind of restaurant and taken the food out of the refrigerator and ate dinner in peace of mind.
In the middle of their savage acts they also went out in a "Debke" dance in the middle of the street. And there were also chants of "Allah Akbar" "Alayhum-al-Yehud"! Itbachum."
These eyewitnesses report that all the work was done on the orders of a commander, who gave his orders in a European language and an Arabic translator translated the orders into the Arab masses in Arabic. Their savage work was done with a few shots and mostly used incendiary bombs. The people who were murdered were also burned, some while alive.
Among those killed and burned are ten children from three families. Two of them, brother and sister were found held and glued to each other and some burnt. There are many signs that the killers' actions were intentional, knowing in advance that there are mostly elderly Jews on D. Street who are unable to defend themselves ...
All this is known from eyewitnesses, who peeked out of their windows. On this street there is a house with a man, who has a weapon in the government license, and when the rioters realized, they did not dare to go to this house. Their "heroism" was reduced to elders, women and children, in the court on the main street. Who guarded the place. Wildly they pushed the mother of the three children, who were burned in the basement, into the fire...
All this is known from eyewitnesses, who peeked out of their windows. On this street there is a house with a man, who has a weapon in the government license, and when the rioters felt they did not dare to go to this house, their "heroism" was reduced to elders, women and children. In the courthouse on the main street, nothing bad happened thanks to the brave defense of two Jewish guards (Jewish Settlement Police) who guarded the place.. Wildly they pushed the mother of the three children, who were burned in the basement, into the fire.
Monday evening: When we returned from the funeral we found another pile of burning coals in the synagogue that had been destroyed and burned... טבריה. מה שקרה בליל הזוועות, אור ליום ח' תשרי, בטבריה אינו ממאורעות, שאנו רגילים בהם בשלוש שנות האימים העוברות על היישוב היהודי בארץ. אין זה כלל מה שקוראת הממשלה בזמן האחרון "המרד הערבי" אלא פרעות ממש על־ידי כנופיות מרצחים, שבאו והתנפלו על שכונה שוקטת ובוטחת, תושבים וותיקים בפרוור טבריה. וכפי ההוכחות לא היו המתנפלים כנופיות מרצחים מבחוץ, אלא שכני טבריה מהכפרים הסמוכים מצפון ומדרום, כפרי לוביה וטבחה והסמוכים אליהם. ולא מתוך התרגשות והתרגזות באו לידי מעשה נבלה אכזרי זה. מתוך מנוחת הנפש עלו המונים על קרית־שמואל, שמעולם לא הרגיזו תושבי קריה זו את השכנים הערבים. כנופית־מרצחים זו עלתה על הפרוור בראשית הערב בשעה9 והתרכזו ברחוב אחד הנקרא רחוב ד' ועשו את מעשיהם האכזריים בשקט ובמנוחת-הנפש בלא שום הפרעה במשך שעתיים ואחרי שגמרו את מעשיהם עזבו את השכונה לא מתוך בהלה ורדיפה אחריהם. עדי-ראיה, שהציצו דרך סדקי החלונות מתוך חשכה, ראו, שנכנסו לתוך בית שיש בו מעין מסעדה והוציאו את האוכל מתוך המקרר ואכלו סעודת-הערב במנוחת־הנפש. באמצע מעשיהם הפראיים יצאו גם בריקוד "דבקה" באמצע הרחוב. והיו גם קריאות "אלה אכבר" "עליהום", עדי־ראיה־אלה מוסרים, שכל העבודה נעשתה מתוך פקודות של מפקד, שנתן את פקודותיו בשפה אירופית ותורגמן ערבי תירגם את הפקודות להמון הערבי בערבית. עבודתם הפראית נעשתה ביריות מועטות ובעיקר השתמשו בפצצות הצתה. גם את האנשים שרצחו שרפו אותם, מהם חיים. בין הנהרגים והנשרפים נמצאים עשרה ילדים משלוש משפחות. שנים מהם, אח ואחות נמצאו אחוזים ודבוקים זה בזה ובחלקם שרופים. יש הרבה סימנים שמעשי המרצחים היו מכוונים בידיעה מראש שברחוב ד' יושבים בעיקר יהודים קשישים שאין ביכולתם להתגונן... כל זה ידוע מפי עדי־ראיה, שהציצו מחלונותיהם. ברחוב זה יש בית שנמצא בו אדם, שברשיון הממשלה יש לו נשק, וכשהפורעים הרגישו בדבר לא העיזו לגשת לבית הזה, "גבורתם" הצטמצמה בזקנים, נשים וילדים, בבית־המשפט הנמצא ברחוב הראשי לא אונה כל רע הודות להגנה אמיצה של שני גפירים יהודים ששמרו על המקום. בפראות דחפו את אמם של שלושת הילדים, שנשרפו במרתף, לתוך המדורה. ביום שני לפנות ערב :כשחזרנו מהלוויה עוד מצאנו ערמת גחלים בוערות בבית־הכנסת שנחרב ונשרף‭...‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
↑ Yeme ha-kalaniyot: Erets Yisrael bi-tekufat ha-Mandat by Segev, Tom. Keter, 1999, p. 336. [3]
↑ ha-Arets - הארץ, 6 January 1939.
Nazi propaganda in [Palestine] E.Y. Propaganda centers in the Near East, Cairo and Baghdad. - Who is behind the terrorists - The Tiberias massacre was prepared by the Nazis.
התעמולה הנאצית... מרכזי התעמולה במזרח הקרוב, קהיר ובגדאד. — מי עומד מאחורי הטרוריסטים — טבח טבריה הוכן על ידי נאצים
↑ Tiberias night - the massacre that was forgotten Cafe The Marker, Apr 22, 2015.
↑ Swedenburg, Ted (2003). Memories of Revolt: The 1936–1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752635 [4]. p.165
↑ "From the pages of Palestinian history – Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir." MEMO. May 1, 2023.

Khalil Muhammad Issa Ejak – later known as Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir – was born in the town of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya, northeast of Ramallah...
Al-Kabir’s Islamic influence was fundamental to his commitment to the armed revolutionary line. In his memoirs, he justified his affiliation with resistance[SIC] activities by stating: “I had an old idea that the duty of every Muslim Arab is to defend his land and his nation. So when the Syrian revolution against the French came, I decided to join it, because I see no difference between Lebanon and Syria; they are all Arab countries. In the city of Haifa, we had a sheikh named Ismail al-Naqshbandi, a Syrian native of Kurdish origin who studied at al-Azhar. I went to him and expressed my desire to join the revolution in his country.”
Al-Kabir met Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam in Haifa in 1927 and became one of his followers.
His field experience was not limited to Palestine. Al-Kabir also participated in Rashid Ali al-Gaylani’s ... in Iraq in 1941. His affiliation with Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s line of thought was arguably a crucial factor in his adoption of a comprehensive notion of Arab-Islamic "resistance." In the meantime, al-Kabir took military courses in Greece and Germany and graduated as a two-star officer.
He returned to Palestine and joined the Salvation Army, after regaining regional command of Galilee.

PS, This radical bigoted siteq calls the Arab Nazi 1941 Iraq coup, erroneously, as supposed "Revolution against British colonialism".
↑ PA PM Muhammad Shtayyeh honors terrorist murderers: Generation after generation we will mention them”. Official PA TV Live. Jan 9, 2022. PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “What is the common denominator between Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, Ataa Al-Zir, Abu Ibrahim Al-Kabir, Ahmad Musa Salameh Al-Dalki, Muhammad Al-Dura, Faris Ouda… Khalil Al-Wazir [Abu Jihad], Abu Iyad, and Yasser Arafat? … The common denominator is Palestine...”

[1] Arab anti-Semitism, and the Nazis By Lyn Julius. Jewish Journal, February 8, 2018.
Although he was not the only collaborator with Nazism – Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Rashid Ali al-Kelani, Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir, Hassan Salama and Arif Abd al-Raziq spring to mind – the role played by Palestinian leader and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in fomenting anti-Jewish incitement and violence, not just in British Palestine but across the Arab world, is key. From 1931, he conflated “Zionists” with “Jews.” Any Jewish community became fair game for collective punishment – and still is.

[2] Kedourie, Elie (2015), "Qassamites in the Arab Revolt, 1936–39", Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-317-44272-1 [1].

[3] Lachman, Shai (2015), "Qassamites in the Arab Revolt, 1936-39", Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel, Routledge, ISBN 9781317442721 [2]

[4] The Forgotten Tiberias Pogrom of 1938, JVL.

(October 2, 1938). The year 1938 was especially violent in the Holy Land. It was the midst of a violent three-year nationalist uprising known as the Arab Revolt. Led by the father of Arab nationalism in Palestine, Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Arabs founded the Arab High Committee and set three key demands for ending the violence: ending all Jewish immigration, banning land sales to Jews, and giving Arabs control of Mandatory Palestine, leaving them to deal with the Jews. A steady stream of incitement in schools, the Arab press, and houses of worship ensued, along with a call to boycott Jewish products. In April 1936, Arab terrorists attacked a Jewish bus and killed two. This event unleashed a cycle of tit-for-tat violence which saw the death of many Jews and Arabs. One area that saw many violent attacks on Jews was Tiberias. In May 1938, a Jew was killed by an explosion and, in September, three Jews were murdered, and a Jew and an Arab were wounded by four Arab terrorists. Tiberias was a poorly defended city .... On October 2, an Arab terrorist cell occupied the hills surrounding Tiberias. They waited for the cover of darkness to begin their well-planned operation. At 9 p.m., the terrorists cut the telephone lines into Tiberias so the victims could not call for assistance. Two terrorist cells hiding in the hills entered city from the north and south. Five minutes later, the terrorists remaining in the hills sounded a shrill whistle loud enough so both cells could hear it. This signaled the beginning of the attack. The small local police force was taken by surprise. The terrorists first hit the office of the British district commissioner, the police station, and the quarters where British police were housed hoping to weaken or eliminate any defenses. The attackers then went to the central synagogue and set it on fire. The caretaker of the synagogue Ezekiel Katz, 42, was trapped inside and burned to death.
The terrorists also burned down the local post office before making their way to the Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Shmuel, north of the old city, armed with bombs, rifles, daggers, and torches. That is when the “systematically organized and savagely executed” carnage began.
The terrorists set fire to several Jewish wooden homes. They entered the house of Joshua Ben-Arieh where he, his wife Shoshanna, and one of their sons, Arieh, were stabbed to death and then set on fire. There younger son Moshe, only 18 months old, was shot to death. Visiting the Ben-Arieh family were three siblings – Chaim age 12, Rivkah age 10, and Ezra age 8. The terrorists stabbed and burned to death all three children. While Shimon Yochanan Mizrahi was on patrol in another part of town, terrorists stormed his house and killed his wife Rachel, 26, and all five of their children ages 12, 5, 3, 2, and 1. The Arabs also attacked a third house, the home of Menachem Kabni, 60, and his wife Dora, 40. Both were American citizens. Mr. Kabni had been the beadle of a synagogue in New York for 30 years. Rabbi Asha Werner, who had been visiting Tiberias at the time, reported that the infiltrators stabbed the couple to death and burned their bodies. Miraculously, Mr. Kabni’s sister Esther managed to escape the execution.
In total, the terrorists set six Jewish houses on fire and savagely murdered anyone they could find inside. Two supernumerary Jewish constables, Israel Bookman and Zvi Chatzkeleviz, and an additional Jewish man, Jacob Gross, died in a gun fight valiantly trying to stop the attacks. Several other Jews were seriously injured. All but four of the victims were stabbed to death and set on fire...

[5] Haboker - הבקר, 4 October 1938.
20 Martyrs of Tiberias - The blood of a mother was mixed with the blood of her six children.

‬20 חללי טבריה - נתערבו דמה של אם בדם ששת ילדה.

[6] -Tsofeh - הצפה, 9 October 1938.

Tiberias.
What happened on the night of the horrors, on the eve of Tishrei, in Tiberias is not one of the events we are used to during the three years of horrors that befell the Jewish community in the country. This is not at all what the government has been calling the "Arab uprising" lately, but riots by gangs of murderers, who came and attacked a quiet and safe neighborhood, veteran residents of the Tiberias suburb.
And as evidence, the attackers were not gangs of murderers from outside, but neighbors of Tiberias from the nearby villages to the north and south, the villages of Lubia and Tebgha and adjacent to them. And not out of excitement and resentment came this cruel scoundrel act. Out of peace of mind, crowds descended on Kiryat Shmuel, which never angered the residents of the Arab neighbors.
This gang of murderers went up in the suburbs at the beginning of the evening at 9 o'clock and concentrated on one street called D [Dalet] Street and did their cruel acts quietly and peacefully without any disturbance for two hours and after they finished their actions they left the neighborhood not out of panic and persecution. Eyewitnesses, peeking through the crackers of the windows in the dark, saw that they had entered a house that had a kind of restaurant and taken the food out of the refrigerator and ate dinner in peace of mind.
In the middle of their savage acts they also went out in a "Debke" dance in the middle of the street. And there were also chants of "Allah Akbar" "Alayhum-al-Yehud"! Itbachum."
These eyewitnesses report that all the work was done on the orders of a commander, who gave his orders in a European language and an Arabic translator translated the orders into the Arab masses in Arabic. Their savage work was done with a few shots and mostly used incendiary bombs. The people who were murdered were also burned, some while alive.
Among those killed and burned are ten children from three families. Two of them, brother and sister were found held and glued to each other and some burnt. There are many signs that the killers' actions were intentional, knowing in advance that there are mostly elderly Jews on D. Street who are unable to defend themselves ...
All this is known from eyewitnesses, who peeked out of their windows. On this street there is a house with a man, who has a weapon in the government license, and when the rioters realized, they did not dare to go to this house. Their "heroism" was reduced to elders, women and children, in the court on the main street. Who guarded the place. Wildly they pushed the mother of the three children, who were burned in the basement, into the fire...
All this is known from eyewitnesses, who peeked out of their windows. On this street there is a house with a man, who has a weapon in the government license, and when the rioters felt they did not dare to go to this house, their "heroism" was reduced to elders, women and children. In the courthouse on the main street, nothing bad happened thanks to the brave defense of two Jewish guards (Jewish Settlement Police) who guarded the place.. Wildly they pushed the mother of the three children, who were burned in the basement, into the fire.
Monday evening: When we returned from the funeral we found another pile of burning coals in the synagogue that had been destroyed and burned... טבריה. מה שקרה בליל הזוועות, אור ליום ח' תשרי, בטבריה אינו ממאורעות, שאנו רגילים בהם בשלוש שנות האימים העוברות על היישוב היהודי בארץ. אין זה כלל מה שקוראת הממשלה בזמן האחרון "המרד הערבי" אלא פרעות ממש על־ידי כנופיות מרצחים, שבאו והתנפלו על שכונה שוקטת ובוטחת, תושבים וותיקים בפרוור טבריה. וכפי ההוכחות לא היו המתנפלים כנופיות מרצחים מבחוץ, אלא שכני טבריה מהכפרים הסמוכים מצפון ומדרום, כפרי לוביה וטבחה והסמוכים אליהם. ולא מתוך התרגשות והתרגזות באו לידי מעשה נבלה אכזרי זה. מתוך מנוחת הנפש עלו המונים על קרית־שמואל, שמעולם לא הרגיזו תושבי קריה זו את השכנים הערבים. כנופית־מרצחים זו עלתה על הפרוור בראשית הערב בשעה9 והתרכזו ברחוב אחד הנקרא רחוב ד' ועשו את מעשיהם האכזריים בשקט ובמנוחת-הנפש בלא שום הפרעה במשך שעתיים ואחרי שגמרו את מעשיהם עזבו את השכונה לא מתוך בהלה ורדיפה אחריהם. עדי-ראיה, שהציצו דרך סדקי החלונות מתוך חשכה, ראו, שנכנסו לתוך בית שיש בו מעין מסעדה והוציאו את האוכל מתוך המקרר ואכלו סעודת-הערב במנוחת־הנפש. באמצע מעשיהם הפראיים יצאו גם בריקוד "דבקה" באמצע הרחוב. והיו גם קריאות "אלה אכבר" "עליהום", עדי־ראיה־אלה מוסרים, שכל העבודה נעשתה מתוך פקודות של מפקד, שנתן את פקודותיו בשפה אירופית ותורגמן ערבי תירגם את הפקודות להמון הערבי בערבית. עבודתם הפראית נעשתה ביריות מועטות ובעיקר השתמשו בפצצות הצתה. גם את האנשים שרצחו שרפו אותם, מהם חיים. בין הנהרגים והנשרפים נמצאים עשרה ילדים משלוש משפחות. שנים מהם, אח ואחות נמצאו אחוזים ודבוקים זה בזה ובחלקם שרופים. יש הרבה סימנים שמעשי המרצחים היו מכוונים בידיעה מראש שברחוב ד' יושבים בעיקר יהודים קשישים שאין ביכולתם להתגונן... כל זה ידוע מפי עדי־ראיה, שהציצו מחלונותיהם. ברחוב זה יש בית שנמצא בו אדם, שברשיון הממשלה יש לו נשק, וכשהפורעים הרגישו בדבר לא העיזו לגשת לבית הזה, "גבורתם" הצטמצמה בזקנים, נשים וילדים, בבית־המשפט הנמצא ברחוב הראשי לא אונה כל רע הודות להגנה אמיצה של שני גפירים יהודים ששמרו על המקום. בפראות דחפו את אמם של שלושת הילדים, שנשרפו במרתף, לתוך המדורה. ביום שני לפנות ערב :כשחזרנו מהלוויה עוד מצאנו ערמת גחלים בוערות בבית־הכנסת שנחרב ונשרף‭...‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

[7] Yeme ha-kalaniyot: Erets Yisrael bi-tekufat ha-Mandat by Segev, Tom. Keter, 1999, p. 336. [3]

[8] -Arets - הארץ, 6 January 1939.
Nazi propaganda in [Palestine] E.Y. Propaganda centers in the Near East, Cairo and Baghdad. - Who is behind the terrorists - The Tiberias massacre was prepared by the Nazis.
התעמולה הנאצית... מרכזי התעמולה במזרח הקרוב, קהיר ובגדאד. — מי עומד מאחורי הטרוריסטים — טבח טבריה הוכן על ידי נאצים

[9] Tiberias night - the massacre that was forgotten Cafe The Marker, Apr 22, 2015.

[10] Swedenburg, Ted (2003). Memories of Revolt: The 1936–1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752635 [4]. p.165

[11] "From the pages of Palestinian history – Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir." MEMO. May 1, 2023.

Khalil Muhammad Issa Ejak – later known as Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir – was born in the town of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya, northeast of Ramallah...
Al-Kabir’s Islamic influence was fundamental to his commitment to the armed revolutionary line. In his memoirs, he justified his affiliation with resistance[SIC] activities by stating: “I had an old idea that the duty of every Muslim Arab is to defend his land and his nation. So when the Syrian revolution against the French came, I decided to join it, because I see no difference between Lebanon and Syria; they are all Arab countries. In the city of Haifa, we had a sheikh named Ismail al-Naqshbandi, a Syrian native of Kurdish origin who studied at al-Azhar. I went to him and expressed my desire to join the revolution in his country.”
Al-Kabir met Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam in Haifa in 1927 and became one of his followers.
His field experience was not limited to Palestine. Al-Kabir also participated in Rashid Ali al-Gaylani’s ... in Iraq in 1941. His affiliation with Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s line of thought was arguably a crucial factor in his adoption of a comprehensive notion of Arab-Islamic "resistance." In the meantime, al-Kabir took military courses in Greece and Germany and graduated as a two-star officer.
He returned to Palestine and joined the Salvation Army, after regaining regional command of Galilee.

PS, This radical bigoted siteq calls the Arab Nazi 1941 Iraq coup, erroneously, as supposed "Revolution against British colonialism".

[12] PA PM Muhammad Shtayyeh honors terrorist murderers: Generation after generation we will mention them”. Official PA TV Live. Jan 9, 2022. PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “What is the common denominator between Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, Ataa Al-Zir, Abu Ibrahim Al-Kabir, Ahmad Musa Salameh Al-Dalki, Muhammad Al-Dura, Faris Ouda… Khalil Al-Wazir [Abu Jihad], Abu Iyad, and Yasser Arafat? … The common denominator is Palestine...”

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