From our Digital Projects | Biography | On 8 April 1948, Abd al-Qadir Husseini was killed in battle while leading a counter-attack to recover the village of al-Qastal. Husseini had participated in the Great Palestinian Rebellion of 1936 and was appointed commander of Palestinian guerilla forces by the Arab Higher Committee, after the adoption of the UN Partition Plan in
A total of 79 people died, including 23 women and one British soldier in this massacre in Sheikh Jarrah during the Arab-Jewish struggle over Jerusalem in the pre-state era.