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Ibrahim Abu Dayyeh is Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Abdel Aziz Abu Dayyeh Al-Ghunaimat, a Palestinian leader, born in Surif in 1919 and martyred on March 6, 1952 in Beirut from his wounds in the Battle of Ramat Rachel, south of Jerusalem.
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In 1919, the sun of Surif rose on the birth of Ibrahim Abu Dayyah, where he received his primary and secondary education at Surif School and secondary school in Hebron. After the death of his father, he took over his work as a barber in Surif. The Mujahideen in the areas of Hebron and Jerusalem in 1932 AD, especially between the hero Abdul Halim al-Julani and the leadership in Jerusalem, and when he grew up he participated in the 1936 AD revolution.
Jihad in the homeland
He began his long association with Commander Abdul Qader Al-Husseini from 1934 AD until they formed the Holy Jihad Forces on 12/25/47 in the alleys of the old town in Surif and remained his companion until Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini was martyred in the Battle of Qastal on 4/8/1948 AD. The great Syrian Mujahid was accompanied by Saeed Al-Aas.
Abu Dayyah was known for his calmness of soul and long looking at the horizon with courage, nobility of soul and love of redemption. These qualities helped him in his jihad work when he worked with Abdul Qader Al-Husseini in collecting weapons and transporting them from Egypt to Palestine and distributing them to the Mujahideen in preparation for the continuation of the revolution against the enemies of the Palestinian people from the British and Zionists. This is after the end of World War II.
His role in the battles of the Holy Jihad Army
On December 25, 1947, Abdul Qader Al-Husseini held the first meeting, followed by several meetings that resulted in the organization of a war staff and a leadership council for the Palestinian revolution, where Ibrahim Abu Dayyeh took over:
Command of the military operations brigades within the Holy Jihad Army.
He had the role of leading a group of holy jihad forces in the famous battle of Qastal, which took place on 4/7/1948 AD. During this period, the military position was in favor of the Mujahideen, as they dealt several painful blows to the Jews in the main cities and recorded them in the last ten days of the month of March The year 1948 AD achieved a crushing victory in two major battles in the city of Jerusalem, the first battle of Shuafat on 3/24/1948 AD, and the second in the Battle of Duheisheh on 3/27/1948 AD. The Abu Dayyeh group was the first group to enter the village of Qastal at the second hour on 4/8/1948 AD, and the flags of the revolution were raised over it. Until this moment, the Mujahideen had the upper hand, but they lost in this battle, the leader Abdul Qadir Al-Husseini, “as his martyrdom affected the morale of the fighters significantly, and in The second day, during the funeral of the martyr Abdul Qadir al-Husseini on 4/4/1948 AD, the Jews took advantage of the event and were able to overcome those who remained stationed in al-Qastal, and thus began another chapter that differs from the previous chapter, where the scales tended to favor the Jews. He was entrusted with the task of defending the Qatamon neighborhood near the city of Jerusalem, which is based on a hill overlooking most of the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in the new Jerusalem. Therefore, the neighborhood had a great military value known to the Jews, so they sought to occupy it since the end of April 1948 AD, and near the neighborhood was a Jewish colony taken by the Jews A den to attack Qatamon, which if it fell, the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road would be cut off and there was no other road between Jerusalem and Hebron.He had a great role in the battles of Kfar Etzion and Surif, during which his name became famous.The battle of Ramat Rachel settlement south of Jerusalem was a brother During his battles, he was hit by 7 bullets that lodged in his back, which paralyzed his body. He was then transferred to Beirut, where he died in 1952.
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Battle of Surif (the back of the argument)
The most prominent battles led by Ibrahim Abu Dayh alongside Commander Abdul Qadir al-Husseini, is the Battle of Surif, which was known as the "Zohr al-Hijjah", which took place on the sixteenth of January 1948, despite the multiplicity of accounts, but all of them end with the exposure of the Zionist group and then its consolidation In the hill of "Zuhr al-Hijjah" between the village of Beit Nativ and Surif, and then besieged and eliminated it with its 35 soldiers. Many Zionist military historians confirm that the unit did not lose its way, but was under Palestinian supervision from the beginning, and that it fell into a tight ambush in Wadi Al-Sir, where trenches were dug from three sides, and was completely wiped out. Four were martyred in this battle. of Arab fighters.
In that, Professor Salim Hijazi sang:
On the day of the Valley of Secret they fell like autumn leaves
When Surif went to the father, he continued to crawl violently
The battle of Dhuhr al-Hijjah constituted a painful blow to the Zionists, and voices were raised calling for withdrawal from settlements far from the major settlement blocs, and shortening the lines of communication between the settlements to facilitate the process of defending them. At the same time, the "mountain unit" or "lamed ha" (meaning the 35th unit) turned into a military legend in the Zionist society and dozens of books and studies were written about it in glorification of what was said about its "heroism in the confrontation until the last shot."
The martyrdom of Abu Dayyeh
The battle of Ramat Rachel, south of Jerusalem, on May 17, 1948 AD, was the last battle that Abu Dayyah fought. Forty days had passed since the martyrdom of his companion, the martyr Abdel Qader al-Husseini. Then he was transferred to Beirut and remained in his treatment for four years patiently and faithfully, as if he was in the middle of the battle, but it was time for the knight to dismount and it was time for him to leave.
At exactly seven o'clock in the evening, Thursday, March 6, 1952 AD, the body of the martyr was buried in a solemn procession in Beirut on Friday, March 7, 1952 AD.
Poets lamented him in their poems after his death:
You have Abraham in your people as a memory... you fill your souls with admiration and pride.
I lived as a lily in the Lord of Jerusalem, and in the... of Al-Qastal, an eagle had soared
If only Surif Al-Veda had given birth... instead of one like you, ten
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