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The Army of the Holy War or Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) was a force of Palestinian irregulars
Irregular military

Irregular military refers to any non-standard military. Being defined by exclusion, there is a lot of variance in what comes under the term. It can refer to the type of military organization, or to the type of tactics used....
 in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war. Historians described this as the "personal" army of the Husayni family.

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni was a Palestinian nationalism and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle, , which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War in the 1948 Palestine War....
 arrived in the Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 sector in December 1947 with about a hundred men. He established his headquarters at Bir Zeit
Bir Zeit

Bir Zeit is a Palestinian territories town on the outskirts of Ramallah in the central West Bank.The name Bir Zeit literally translates to "well of oil"; referring to the wells in which its inhabitants historically stored virgin-pressed olive oil....
 and started to recruit volunteers to organise the siege of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 in attacking the Jewish convoys to the city.






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The Army of the Holy War or Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) was a force of Palestinian irregulars
Irregular military

Irregular military refers to any non-standard military. Being defined by exclusion, there is a lot of variance in what comes under the term. It can refer to the type of military organization, or to the type of tactics used....
 in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war. Historians described this as the "personal" army of the Husayni family.

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni was a Palestinian nationalism and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle, , which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War in the 1948 Palestine War....
 arrived in the Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 sector in December 1947 with about a hundred men. He established his headquarters at Bir Zeit
Bir Zeit

Bir Zeit is a Palestinian territories town on the outskirts of Ramallah in the central West Bank.The name Bir Zeit literally translates to "well of oil"; referring to the wells in which its inhabitants historically stored virgin-pressed olive oil....
 and started to recruit volunteers to organise the siege of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 in attacking the Jewish convoys to the city. With a thousand men, Hasan Salama
Hasan Salama

Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni....
 took responsibility of the operations in the Lydda and Ramle sectors, at the entry of the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road.

After the death of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni on April 8, 1948, Haj Amin al-Husayni gave the commandership to Emil Ghuri
Emil Ghuri

Emil Ghuri , a Palestinian Christian, was Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee , the official leadership of the Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine....