Sheikh Musa Hadeib was the head of Mount Hebron farmers' party and a founder of the Zionist-supported

Muslim National Associations The Muslim National Associations (MNA)Among them was ''al-Jam'iyya al-Islamiyya al-Wataniyya'' ( ar, الجمعية الاسلامية الوطنية), founded in 1921, and was active until 1923. was a Zionist-inspired and funded organization founde ...

. He was from the village of Dawaymeh near

Hebron Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East J ...

. Cohen, Hillel '' Army of Shadows: Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 15-17 In October 1929, Musa Hadeib was killed near

Herod's Gate Herod's Gate ( ar, باب الزاهرة, Bab az-Zahra, ) is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem), Muslim Quarter inside of the old city to the eponymic Palestinians, Palestinian nei ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, accused of collaborating with the Zionists.Cohen, Hillel ''Army of Shadows: Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 59 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.Shadowplays
by Neve Gordon, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008 His killers, according to Zionist intelligence, were three men dressed as women, from the Maraqa clan of Hebron.The Tangled Truth
By Benny Morris, ''The New Republic''; 7/5/08 The JTA reported the incident as having occurred on October 13, 1929 stating "Great excitement prevailed in Jerusalem today over the murder of Musa Isdeb, an Arab from a village near Hebron, who was killed at Herod’s Gate... It is presumed that the Arab is a victim of inner political enmities between Arab factions, the murdered man supposedly being active in propaganda against the Grand Mufti." A follow-up article from October 22, 1929 called the incident a blood feud "between the family of the late Mousa Adeb, founder of the Arab peasant party and opponent of the Grand Mufti, and the clan of Amin El Husseini."

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