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Halima Basta, Deputy Officer of the British Police in the North District of Palestine, Egyptian

Halima Basta, from Egypt, was known for his strong allegiance to the English and his detestation of the Palestinian National Movement. Basta pursued the Palestinian militant rebels of the 1936 revolution and was assassinated on 15 April 1937 on the hands of the Black Hand; an anti-Zionist militant organization in Mandatory Palestine. 

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Adel Zawati The Palestine Great Rebellion 1936-1939 Traitors Social History

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Political Movement and mobilization Social History

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بار، جيمس. خط في الرمال: بريطانيا وفرنسا والصراع الذي شكّل الشرق الأوسط. 2018. ط1. بيروت: دار السااقي

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Halima Basta, Deputy Officer of the British Police in the North District of Palestine, Egyptian

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Halima Basta, Deputy Officer of the British Police in the North District of Palestine, Egyptian