Mohammad Khaleel Jamjoum
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Mohammad Khaleel Jamjoum (Arabic:محمّد خليل جمجوم) was born in Hebron in 1902. He studied later on at the American University of Beirut and participated in the 1929 Palestine riots which occurred when Palestine was still under the British mandate.
Jamjoum was known to oppose Zionism and the British Mandate. He participated in protests around the city of Hebron. In the aftermath of the 1929 Palestine Riots, 124 Arabs were charged with murder and 55 were convicted. Of the 55 convicted of murder, 26 were sentenced to death.
The Events in Hebron[edit]
Many cities such as Jaffa, Haifa,and Jerusalem fought in the riots and the peak of the clashes were in Hebron. Although 25 Palestinian Arabs were convicted of murder, the sentences were later changed to life imprisonment with the exception of three men: Fouad Hassan Hijazi, Mohammad Khalil Jamjoum and Ataa Ahmad AlZer.
Day of Execution[edit]
At nine o'clock, on the Tuesday of the seventeenth of June,1930,it was the day our story's protagonist,Mohammad Khalil was executed with a loose in the Prison of Acre.He was originally the third one to die in the death sentence,but he tore the ropes and pushed Ataa AlZer, his mate in death aside to be the second executed man on that day.
Letter
Mohammad Jamjoum and his two fellow friends were allowed to write a letter a day before their execution,and they said in their letter:
-"Now and that we are on the door of death,sacrificing our souls for our beautiful homeland,dear Palestine,we implore all the Palestinians not to forget our souls that will fly in the sky of this loved land,and to remember that we sacrificed our souls and skulls for them to be building units for the independence and freedom of this country.I ask of you to fight and work hard to get rid of our foreign enemies,and not to sell even one span of our land to the Jews.I also ask of the Arab kings and princes and all the muslims to save Palestine from the state of pain it is in right now .We express our deep gratitude for our men who are fighting and ask of them to continue that way till we reach victory.And now that we have witnessed from our people such patriotism,we gladly accept death,putting the ropes of the swing in our necks for you free Palestine.As an end,we ask of you to inscribe those words on our grave:For the Arab Nation is the complete independence or the early death,and by the name of the Arabs we live and by the name of the Arabs we die".
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