The epic confession of 97-year-old Palestinian man shows the uneven battles with Israelis

The village he defended from syonists 70 years ago, Muhammad Mahmud Jadallah calls it a <x0fat”.

He is one of several Palestinians who had fought against Zionist gangs in 1948 and is still alive to confess his story.

Photographers from his time described him as a “freedom fighter” and his father, who was part of the resistance against British occupation.

He owns hundreds of photos and documents that testify to his heroic Palestinian past.

Abu Nihad, who was born at a critical time in Palestinian history; three years after Britain was occupied with the purpose of creating the state of Israel.

Syonistic immigrants from displaced Europe in Palestine were helped by the British.

There was a lot of injustice against Palestine”, he said.

The “Palestinians were attacked by two fronts; on one side from the Jews who took our land, and on the other from the British occupation”, he added.

Like a young man, Abu Nihad was working in the hospital before he became chief waiter of some of the most prestigious hotels in Jerusalem.

They moved to Palestine for the first time. Some of them have served and worked in the British Army, especially during World War II”.

But on the Arabic side, there were attempts to fight against Israeli forces, which occurred during the 1948s when the Arab League was formed.

While the Arab League was seeking volunteers from Arab countries to fight, a respected and local leader, Abd al-Qader al-Husseini, was building his illegal power, al-Jihad el-Muqadas.

Al-Husseini selected hundreds of young Palestinians to be trained militarily in Syria, including Abu Nihadin.

“We landed in Jerusalem on a bus after we had orders from the Arab High Committee”, Nihab said, referring to the Palestinian political bodies of 1948.

We've been training for three months. We pulled mountains, trained like using guns, grenades, and a lot of other stuff”.

Every Thursday, we were going to the bathrooms to wear some formal clothes and go to Damascus. We would spend the night in the city and return in the morning to continue training”.

But by the time the group returned to Palestine, the Arab League had refused to supply weapons, claiming they had no weapons. In fact, he simply had no faith in al-Hussain's guerrilla movement.

Al-Husseeni, who was in Damascus seeking help, ran into a meeting with the Arab League shouting: “You are all traitors, and history will record that you lost Palestine”

“Abd al-Qader al-Husseini returned to hardhearted Palestine”, says Abu Nihad.

When the war broke out, no British soldier left Sarafand armed. Syonist militia took full control of the base, taking all of the <x1 weapons.

Although law and order were to be guaranteed under British administration until the end of their mandate on May 15, 1948, Zionist groups attacked and expelled about 440,000 Palestinians from 220 villages, before the British were out, said Al Jazeera”, broadcast Periscopi.

By March 1948, about 50,000 Zionists fought against 2, 500 Palestinian fighters, and then joined Palestinians with 45,000 Arab volunteers.

While the Zionist forces had won armoured vehicles, tanks, planes and advanced artillery, Palestinians resisted with a small number of light weapons and mortars.

That same day, Zionist forces committed one of the worst massacres in Deir Yassin, executing about 110 civilians and raping several women.

They destroyed the entire village. The news spread over Palestine, and right after that, a lot of people packed their bags and started running away what Jews intended for such a situation”.

Even though Abu Nihad had helped protect his village, the biggest Zionist military operation that had begun in April 1948 proved to be the beginning of many losses.

The Palestinian people were vulnerable, compared to the Jews, we had no weapons, we got very little help”.

I had no doubt in my mind that we would defeat”. /Periscopi/