Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini reorganizes Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee (hay’a); Arab League; Arab Higher Front. Action: The Arab League consolidated nationalist leadership after competition between committee and front...

Organizations/movement: Palestine Arab Workers’ Society; Trade Unions’ Council. Action: A Haifa conference amended the society’s rules and elected Hamran secretary general. Result: A labour-centred...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee delegation. Action: Cattan addressed the UN General Assembly’s First Committee and challenged the legitimacy of policies imposed without Palestinian...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee; United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). Action: A cable informed the UN that Palestinian Arabs should not collaborate with or appear...

Organizations/movement: Trade Unions’ Council. Action: A Haifa conference sent the UN a cable rejecting partition and demanding independence. Result: Labour challenged the AHC’s representative...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee; Palestinian demonstrators. Action: Palestinians participated in a strike protesting the UN partition recommendation. Result: Public rejection became...

Organizations/movement: Palestine Medical Society; Palestinian medical networks. Action: Abd al-Shafi provided medical assistance to Palestinians injured in fighting with Zionist forces. Result: Local...

Organizations/movement: Arab Liberation Army (ALA); Arab League Military Committee. Action: An Arab League-sponsored volunteer army organized forces for the Palestine war. Result: An additional...

Organizations/movement: Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas. Action: Al-Husseini counterattacked at al-Qastal after unsuccessfully seeking supplies in Damascus. Result: He died in battle. Impact /...

Organizations/movement: National Liberation League in Palestine. Action: After the mid-May expansion of the war, the league campaigned for Palestinians to stay in their homeland. Result: An...