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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ibrahim Ahmad Al-Amouri (Abu Jasser; born in October 1910 in
Tulkarem - assassinated on November 9, 1938 in Tulkarem), a Palestinian
military commander in the Great Palestinian Revolt of 1936 against the British
Mandate. military during the revolution.
his biography
Ibrahim Ahmad al-Amouri was born in the Palestinian city of
Tulkarm in October 1910, and he is from the "Awda" family in the
city.
Al-Amouri joined the Great Palestinian Revolt in 1936 under the
leadership of its military commander, General Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad. He
participated in the attack on several Jewish settlements, and participated in
battles against the British forces.
He undertook the task of assassinating the British military
officer "Valbrook", when he was shot in the "Karmoul Café"
in the center of Tulkarm, but the officer was injured but not killed, so the
British authorities announced a prize of 500 pounds for anyone who reports the
whereabouts of Al-Amouri.
He participated in the battles of Mount Al-Muntar in Tulkarem,
then the Palestinian Revolution Command sent him for a two-month military
training course in Damascus, after which he returned to Tulkarem accompanied by
Syrian and Iraqi military trainers. military.
He was injured in a clash with the British forces near Bala
Junction in Tulkarem. He was first treated by the Palestinian doctor,
"Fouad Dadas" in Tulkarem, and then transferred to the village of
Salama near Jaffa, where he was treated there in the clinic of the Palestinian
doctor, "Hamdi Al-Taji Al-Farouqi". During that period, he lost His
family spread a rumor that he was in Damascus to camouflage the British
authorities.
Al-Amouri returned after his recovery to continue his military
duties in the Palestinian revolution, so he set up an ambush for a British
military force near Balaa in Tulkarem, and five British soldiers were killed in
this ambush, which prompted the British authorities to blow up his house in the
city of Tulkarem with explosives, and after a week of demolishing his house, he
sent the leader The Palestinian Amin Al-Husseini provided the necessary funds
to build the house again.
his personal life
Ibrahim Al-Amouri is married and has several children,
including: the Palestinian poet Jasser Al-Amouri, and the Palestinian political
leader, "Muhammad Jihad" Al-Amouri.
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