Al Buraq revolution
Jewish immigration to Palestine increased and their number exceeded one hundred thousand since the British mandate until the beginning of 1929, except for other thousands of illegal infiltrators with ample facilities from the mandate government, and during that period the cries of Jews to demand the Western Wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the "wall of lightning", which the Jews call the Wailing Wall, and the number of Jews at that wall increased, and their practices became bolder the Muslims feared that the Jews would remain like this, so what they did would be gained for them over time, so the Muslims were angry, and they held Conferences and committees formed a committee to defend the "honorable" Buraq, and the issue of the Buraq was given an Islamic dimension, after the news of the Jews ' real intentions towards this wall spread.
At that time, the Jews began to openly declare their so - called rights to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Buraq Wall, and the situation witnessed a serious escalation on the part of the Jews, especially during the World Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, July 28-August 11, 1929). The issue of the Lightning wall was the main issue at the conference.
On August 14, 1929, Jews organized a huge demonstration in Tel Aviv on the anniversary of the destruction of Solomon's Temple, followed the next day by a large demonstration in the streets of Jerusalem, which was unprecedented, in which thousands of them participated until they reached the Lightning wall, where they raised the Zionist flag, sang their religious hymns and began chanting "the wall is our wall.. Woe to those who desecrate our holy places and insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), Islam and Muslims, which provoked the feelings of Muslims and inflamed their emotions.
And the next day, 12 Rabi ' al-awwal 1348 AH, corresponding to (August 16, 1929), worshippers came out after Friday prayers from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in a demonstration that included thousands of residents of Jerusalem and villages and headed towards the Buraq Wall and smashed a table for Jews that was placed above the sidewalk and took out the rest that the Jews had placed in the breaches of the wall and burned it, and on August 17 there was a clash between a group of Muslims and number
A large number of Muslims with a small number of Jews .
On Friday, 1929/8/23, the villagers flocked to Jerusalem in large numbers after the news about the intention of the Jews to launch an attack on the Buraq Wall and occupy it to establish their right to own it, and the crowds of worshippers came out of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to find a Jewish gathering in front of them challenging them, and the clash occurred between the two parties, and the mandate police opened fire on the Arabs and the clash spread to the outskirts of the city and this rampage spread to neighboring villages, and the news of the clashes spread throughout Palestine, demonstrations broke out and the revolution exploded around it, and the next day, more than 60 Jews were killed in the Jewish quarter of Hebron, and demonstrators in Nablus attacked a police station, and violent unrest broke out due to the shooting of
The police opened fire on the crowd and the unrest spread to beisan, Haifa and Jaffa, and there in Jaffa the Jews, led by a Jewish policeman named "jankiz", broke into the House of a mosque imam, killed him, cowed his belly and smashed the heads of his nephew, wife and son.the Jews also attacked a cemetery for Muslims and tampered with the graves and the Muslims, for their part, destroyed six Jewish colonies completely.
In Safed, the news spread that the Jews attacked the Al-Aqsa Mosque, demolished and burned it, the Muslims revolted and attacked the Jewish neighborhood in Safed, the number of Jewish deaths reached 20, about 25 were injured, about a hundred houses were burned and destroyed, and the lightning events reacted outside Palestine, protest and solidarity demonstrations were held in neighboring Arab countries and they were preparing to march towards Palestine and participate in the duty of jihad.
The Mandate authorities arrested hundreds of Arab Muslim youth and arrested them after the Buraq revolution and issued harsh sentences against them. 25 death sentences were issued, three of them were executed, Fouad Hijazi, Atta Al-zir Mohammed Jamjoum, and a total of 972 men were sentenced to Arabs, many Arab villages were sentenced to pay fines, and the most prominent were placed under house arrest, while the sentences for Jews were characterized by leniency, a few of them were given light sentences
Only one Jew was sentenced to death, the policeman "jankiz" who killed the imam of the mosque and his family, and then the sentence was commuted to life, and then commuted to 15 years! Then pardon him! The British government formed a commission of inquiry into the events of the Buraq, after which it made a recommendation to the league of nations to form a committee for this purpose, and it agreed, and the formed committee arrived in Jerusalem on June 19, 1930, and spent a month, and during its Stay held 23 sessions, the most prominent Muslims during the sessions 26 documents and the most prominent Jews 35 documents, and the committee ended in its report in December 1930, and Britain and the league of nations agreed on its conclusion, so it became an important international document and summarized its conclusions the square of the Al-Aqsa al-Sharif mosque, which is one of the properties of the Waqf, and the Muslims also own the sidewalk located in front of the wall and in front of the Mahalla The Moorish sailors are known for it also stood out .
Symbols of the revolution
Mohammad Amin al-Husseini
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini was born in Jerusalem, and received his education there before he joined Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and performed the hajj with his family in 1913 as a young man, so he was called "the pilgrim" and this title remained with him until his death.
His father sent him to Istanbul in 1915 to study, but he joined the Military College and graduated with the rank of non-commissioned officer, and joined the Arab revolution led by Prince Faisal just before the end of the first World War (1914-1918).
When the British occupation of Palestine began, in 1918 he was appointed a special escort to the British military governor, and he immediately resigned from his post in protest against Britain's pro-Zionist policy, and studied at the knowledge College in Jerusalem.
He was elected president of the" Arab Club " in Jerusalem, the first political organization in Palestine opposed to the policy of the Balfour Declaration.
The British authorities sentenced him in 1920 to prison in absentia for leading the demonstrations, so he fled to Karak, and from there to Damascus in the Faisal era, but returned to Jerusalem the same year after the newly appointed High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel pardoned him, and won the position of fatwa in May 1921 to succeed his older brother Kamel, who died.
In January 1922, al-Husseini was appointed chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, and the Jews accused him of orchestrating the"Lightning revolution" in 1929, but the British government acquitted him.
Farhan al-Saadi
Sheikh Farhan al-Saadi, a Palestinian peasant born in 1856 in the village of Al-Mazar in Jenin in the northern West Bank, was the first to spark the Al-Buraq revolution in Jenin district with a group of mujahideen who confronted the British Mandate authority with rebellion and disobedience, so he was arrested and imprisoned for 3 years in Acre prison and Nur Shams prison.
Saadi also played a major role in the outbreak of the 1936 revolution, where he was arrested again, sentenced to death and executed in November 1937.
Atta Ahmed alzair
Born in Hebron, Palestine, in 1895, Atta Ahmed Al-Zair worked in agriculture and actively participated in the Buraq revolution.he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed on June 17, 1930 in the Citadel prison in Acre.
Fouad Hassan Hijazi
Fouad Hassan Hijazi was born in Safed, Palestine, in 1904.he received his primary education in the city, secondary education at the Scottish college, and completed his university studies at the American University of Beirut.
Hijazi participated in the Al-Buraq revolution and was sentenced to death, the first to be executed on June 17, 1930, before his colleagues Mohammed Khalil Jamjoum and Atta Ahmed Al-zir.
Mohammad Khalil Jamjoom
Mohammed Khalil Jamjoum was born in the qazazin neighborhood, in the old town of Hebron, south of the West Bank, in 1902, where he learned to read and write in the katatib in the late Ottoman era (1516-1917), and then completed his university studies at the American University of Beirut.
Muhammad worked with his father from a young age in the trade between Palestine and Egypt, and then he relied on camels to transport goods.
Jamjoom was preparing to get married at the end of the summer of 1929 to one of his neighbors, but the British Mandate arrested him on August 27, 1929, days before his wedding date, and he remained under arrest until his execution on June 17, 1930.