Ayyash Al-Haj Hussein Al-Jassim () was a

Syrian Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend ...

revolutionary who led the armed struggle against the French in Deir al-Zour Governorate in 1925 during the

Great Syrian Revolt The Great Syrian Revolt (), also known as the Revolt of 1925, was a general uprising across the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria and Greater Lebanon during the period of 1925 to 1927. The leading rebel forces initially comprised figh ...

. He was sent into exile to

Jableh Jableh (; ', also spelt ''Jebleh'', ''Jabala'', ''Jablah, Gabala'' or ''Gibellum'') is a Mediterranean coastal city in Syria, north of Baniyas and south of Latakia, with c. 80,000 inhabitants (2004 census). As Ancient ''Gabala'', it was a By ...

in western Syria with his family after they were convicted of planning and carrying out future rebellions against the French. They also sentenced his eldest son Mohammed to 20 years in prison on the island of Arwad, and executed his son Mahmoud by shooting with several other

revolutionaries A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective to describe something producing a major and sudden impact on society. Definition The term—bot ...

. Shortly after Al-Haj and his family were sent to

, he was assassinated by the French authorities in a café outside of the city by

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his coffee, and prevented the transfer of his body to his hometown in

Deir Ez-zor Deir ez-Zor () is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located on the banks of the Euphrates to the northeast of the capital Damascus, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2018 ...

for reasons of public security. He was buried in

in the cemetery of Sultan

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Mosque where the absent prayers held for the spirit of this martyr

mujahid ''Mujahideen'', or ''Mujahidin'' (), is the plural form of ''mujahid'' (), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in ''jihad'' (), interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the commun ...

in all the Syrian cities.

Lineage

Ayyash was born in Deir al-Zour in 1864 to Al-Haj family from the Abo Obaid

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from the

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Personal life

Ayyash Al-haj grew up in a national family that contributed to the struggle against the

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s throughout history, Therefore, Ayyash liked his city and his homeland, and that is why he devoted most of his life to the service and protection of his city. When the

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left

Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor () is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located on the banks of the Euphrates to the northeast of the capital Damascus, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2018 ...

, Ayyash Al-Haj contributed to protecting the people of

from the chaos and the absence of security left by the departure of the Ottoman authority. He formed a local government known as Haj Fadel Government with the dignitaries of

, headed by his cousin from the Abu Obaid

, Fadel Al-Aboud in 1918. He established a national army from the people of the city with Mr. Omar Al-'Abd Al-'Aziz and Mr. Khalaf Al-'Abd Al-Hamid to counter the

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of the English and fought with them at the site of Salhiya in 1919. Ayyash Al-Haj also contributed to resolving many conflicts and

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between the people of

and the people of the countryside due to his good relations with the

s, his cousins and close friends of the Albu Saraya

, who later participated with his sons in the formation of armed revolutionary groups against the

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. The French sentenced him to

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in the city of

with his family members in 1925; they also sentenced his eldest son Mohammad to 20 years of imprisonment and executed his son Mahmoud by firing squad after being convicted of planning and carrying out several military operations against

in Syria, the most recent of which was the epic battle of Ain Bou Juma in 1925. Ayyash and his family left for their

in the city of

where the people of the city embraced and respected them for their struggle and virtues.

Sons

Ayyash ِAl-Haj was married to Ms. Qmorh Al Aboud (Sister of Fadel Al-Aboud, head of the Deir Ezzor government), he has seven sons and three daughters, and each of his sons has a prominent place in Deir Ezzor, among his sons:

Mohammed Al-Ayyash

Politician, a writer and a symbol of sovereignty and leadership in Deir Ezzor, born in Deir Ez-Zor in 1894, early engaged in the political activity, where he founded the national movement against

French colonialism The French colonial empire () comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French colonial empire", that ex ...

and demanded the independence of

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with some of his friends such as Sheikh Mohammed Said Al-Arafi and Thabit Azzawi. He was in constant contact with patriots and

in all Syrian cities such as Dr. Abdul Rahman Shahbandar, who agreed with him to start armed operations in Deir Ezzor city coinciding with the start of the Great Syrian Revolution in

Jabal al-Arab Jabal al-Druze (), is an elevated volcanic region in the Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria. Most of the inhabitants of this region are Druze, and there are also significant Christian communities. Safaitic inscriptions were first found in ...

and

Ghouta Ghouta ( / ALA-LC: ''Ḡūṭat Dimašq'') is a countryside area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim. Name Ghouta is an Arabic term (''ghuta'') for 'garden'. Geography The Ghouta is an ...

Damascus Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Kno ...

. He founded a revolutionary group in

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that carried out several armed operations against the

, the most prominent of which was the epic battle of Ain Albu Juma. Sentenced by the French in 1925 to 20 years

imprisonment Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered " false imprisonment". Impri ...

where he was imprisoned on the island of

Arwad Arwad (; ), the classical antiquity, classical Aradus, is a town in Syria on an eponymous List of islands of Syria, island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative center of the Arwad nahiyah, Subdistrict (''nahiyah''), of which it is ...

, was released after the issuance of the French amnesty in 1937, and died in Deir Ezzor in 1944.

Mahmoud Al-Ayyash (Abu Stita)

He was born in Deir Ezzor in 1898 and was known for his dignity and manhood; the people of Deir Ezzor called him "Abu Stita," Formed a revolutionary group with some of his companions, carried out many military operations against the French forces, most notably the epic battle of Ain Albu Juma, or what modern writers call "Denshway Euphrates." He was an example of

sacrifice Sacrifice is an act or offering made to a deity. A sacrifice can serve as propitiation, or a sacrifice can be an offering of praise and thanksgiving. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Gree ...

, recorded great tournaments in the national struggle record to raise the national

flag A flag is a piece of textile, fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and fla ...

high, On 5 September 1925, Mahmud Al-Ayyash was executed along with 12

, The execution by the French military court was carried out by firing squad in northern

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

Ahmed Al-Ayyash

Patriot, Ahmed was characterized by a strong personality,

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and

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; he was elected president of the Workers Union in 1932 following the "Al Meera" incident, where he led a group of men, broke locks, and opened grain stores for people, that were monopolized by France, he was leading demonstrations against the French and was imprisoned more than once for his nationalist positions.

Abdul Qader Al-Ayyash

One of the prominent people of Deir Ezzor, born in 1911 in the city of Deir Ezzor, he served as a real estate judge in

in 1936, then moved to Maarat al-Nu'man, then to Deir Ezzor, worked in

as a judge, in 1941 he was appointed director of

Al-Bab District al-Bab District () is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of al-Bab Al-Bab ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Bāb'') is a Syrian city, administratively belonging to the Aleppo Governorate. Al-Bab is loca ...

, where he spent two years and then moved to

Salamiyah District Salamiyah ( ') is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population of 187,123. Its administrative district is the city of Salamiyah. Sub-districts The district of Salamiyah is div ...

, in 1943 he resigned and returned to practice law in Deir Ezzor, Besides law, he was appointed a lawyer for state cases for several years, He was appointed as a member of the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

in Deir Ezzor in 1944. He founded the Cultural House Club in Deir Ezzor in 1944, where he gave his literary and historical lectures and invited most of the

Euphrates The Euphrates ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (). Originati ...

intellectuals at that time, among the guests was the great poet Mohammed Al-Furati. The club was closed during the era of President Hosni Al-Zaim in 1948, although it was owned by Mr. Abdul Qader Al-Ayyash who covered its expenses with his own money. In 1945 he published the Voice of the

magazine at his own expense, the first monthly cultural magazine in Deir Ezzor, its articles were limited to the definition of the

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of the

Valley and the history of its cities and describe its economy and codify and highlight its famous

heritage Heritage may refer to: History and society * A heritage asset A heritage asset is an item which has value because of its contribution to a nation's society, knowledge and/or culture. Such items are usually physical assets, but some countries also ...

. He founded and headed the "Adiyat" Society in Deir Ezzor in 1958; He presided over the Supreme Council for the Welfare of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences in the

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in 1961, where he continued fighting for the codification of the

Valley civilization. He was a member of the

Arab Writers Union The Arab Writers Union (ar.: اتحاد الكتاب العرب) is an association of Arab writers, founded in 1969, in Damascus, Syria, at the initiative of a group of Arab writers including Syrian novelist Hanna Mina. In 2008, the union was mo ...

, the

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Society, and the

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Society at

Damascus University Damascus University () is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University () through the merger of the Faculty of Medicine of Dama ...

. He founded the first museum in the city of Deir al-Zour in 1957 known as the Museum of Folk Traditions, the current

Museum still contains many archaeological collections of Mr. Al-Ayyash, which he bought from his own money and

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d to the museum. The Syrian Ministry of Culture published a dictionary of

authors which was written by Abdul Qader Al-Ayyash in 1982, and the Ministry of Folklore also issued three books were written by him. He died in Deir Ezzor in 1974 after he enriched the

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Library with more than 117 books in the field of history,

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and literature, President

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described him in his

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message sent to his relative as "Lost of the homeland".

The epic battle of Ain Albu Gomaa

There were contacts between the leaders of the Great Syrian Revolution and some patriots of

East area as Mohammed Al-Ayyash, who met in

with Dr. Abdul Rahman Shahbandar, leader of the People's Party, and discussed with him the issue of extending the revolution to the

region and opened a front against the French to disperse their forces and ease the pressure on the rebels of

and

, after the returning of Mohammed Al-Ayyash from

he started to raise the enthusiasm of the people of Deir Ezzor and invited them to fight, he agreed with his brother Mahmoud to go to the villages of the Albu Saraya

who resided on the West of

and had a strong friendship with his father Ayyash Al-Haj, to form a revolutionary group with them to strike the

. Mohammed Al-Ayyash managed to form a revolutionary group of thirteen armed men who were ready to take any military action against the

, they were: # Mahmoud Al-Ayyash # Hakami Al-Abed Al-Salameh (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Aziz Al-Ali Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Haji Ali Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Hassan Al-Abed Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Hamza Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Aslibi Masoud Al-Abdul Jalil (Al-Shumaitiya Village). # Khaleef Al-Hassan Al-Muhammad (Al-Kuraitia Village). # Lions of Hamdan (Al-Kuraitia Village). # Ahmed Al-Hassan (Al-Kuraitia Village). # Hameed Al-Sultan (Al-Kuraitia Village). # Abdullah Al-Khalaf Ibrahim ( Deir Ezzor city). # Hamad Bin Rdaini –

Al-Baggara Al-Baggara or Bakara (, ' or ') is an Arab tribe of the Euphrates tribes spread widely between Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. The tribe was named by the name of their grandfather, Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, one of the grandsons of Ali ibn Abi Ta ...

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. Some people worked with the French at translation centers and other fields. Still, they were at the service of the

, they were bringing news to Mohammed Al-Ayyash about the situation and movements of the French and their activities and the timing of their military operations and Mohammed Al-Ayyash guided the

to strike the

. In early June 1925, the translators informed Mohammed Bey ِAl-Ayyash that a military vehicle carrying four French officers who had come from France to inspect the

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construction departments in

and

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, accompanied by their French driver, would leave Deir Ezzor on its way to

. He instructed his brother Mahmoud to set up an ambush in the area of Ain Albu Gomaa on the road to Deir Ezzor

Al-Raqqa Raqqa (, also , Kurdish language, Kurdish: ''Reqa'') is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and b ...

, where the highway runs through a profound

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

and has a narrow stone bridge. When the military vehicle arrived, the

attacked and arrested the

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and took them with their car to a

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called "Al-Aksiyya," and threw them with their driver in one of the abandoned wells where they died. The French were mad for losing contact with their

and began an extensive campaign including

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to search for them, and when they found their bodies and inquired about the names of the

, they sent a sizeable military force equipped with Heavy guns and planes to attack Albu Saraya

and

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it. French planes began bombing the

villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

of the

, it was a horrific and devastating bombardment where the houses were destroyed with children and women and killed the livestock and burned their farms and

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, Some civilians were killed and many were wounded by

bullets A bullet is a Kinetic energy weapon, kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is Shooting, shot from a gun barrel. They are made of a variety of materials, such as copper, lead, steel, polymer, rubber and even wax; and are made ...

and shrapnel from

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, All of this was to pressure the people to surrender the

. When the French were convinced that the

bombing A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechan ...

did not work, they resorted to despicable means where they threatened to arrest the women of the

, their mothers and sisters until the

surrendered themselves to the French, when the news arrived at the

, they emerged from their hideouts and surrendered themselves to avoid arresting their women.

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were tried in

, where the family of Ayyash Al-Haj appointed lawyer Fathallah Al-Saqqal to defend them, the court heard (Officer Bono) head of the

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in Deir Ezzor, who said: If each of the criminals, who committed this terrible offense deserve

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once, the

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leader Mohammed Al-Ayyash deserves

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twice. The French High Commissioner in

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, issued Decision No. 49S / 5 in August 1925, which ordered the

of all members of the Ayyash Al-Haj family to the city of

, Mahmoud Al-Ayyash and 12 of his companions were sentenced to death. The execution was carried out by firing squad on 15 September 1925 in

. Muhammad Al-Ayyash was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment on the island of

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city.

Death

Shortly after Ayyash al-Haj family's living in

, The French authorities assassinated Ayyash Al-Haj in a café outside the city by

his coffee and prevented the transfer of his body to Deir Ezzor city for reasons of public security, He was buried in

in the cemetery of sultan

mosque, the absent prayers held for the spirit of this martyr

in all the

cities, He was lamented by many poets of Deir Ezzor, as the great poet Mohammed Al-Furati.Alt URL
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References

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