Musa Hadeib
Sheikh Musa Hadeib was the head of Mount Hebron farmers' party and a founder of the Zionist-supported Muslim National Associations. He was from the village of Dawaymeh near Hebron.[1]
In October 1929, Musa Hadeib was killed near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem accused of collaborating with the Zionists.[2] His killers were never apprehended, but both his family and the Zionist Executive claimed that the followers of Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the Supreme Muslim Council, were responsible.[2][3] His killers, according to Zionist intelligence, were three men dressed as women, from the Maraqa clan of Hebron.[4] Hadeib was the first Arab public figure who was assassinated and took place only two months following the 1929 Palestine riots.
References
- ^ Cohen, Hillel Army of Shadows: Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 15-17
- ^ a b Cohen, Hillel Army of Shadows: Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 59
- ^ Shadowplays, by Neve Gordon, The Nation, March 24, 2008
- ^ The Tangled Truth, By Benny Morris, The New Republic; 7/5/08[clarification needed]