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The Independence Party (Hizb al-Istiqlal) was a radical Arab nationalist party established on 13 August, 1932 in Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 during the British mandate. Its origins lay in the Istiqlal movement associated with the short-lived Sharifian
Sharifian Army

The Sharifian Army were a group of Arabs officers serving in the Military of the Ottoman Empire who were the main supporters of the Arab Revolt and who played a major role in Iraqi politics until the 1958 revolution....
 government in Damascus.

The rise of the party marked the turn by the Palestinians to mass resistance to the Zionist project and its British patrons. During the 1936-1939 Great Arab Revolt
Great Uprising

The 1936?1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine was an uprising in protest against mass Jewish Immigration, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, by Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine....
 the party called for an Indian Congress Party
Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress-I is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Allan Octavian Hume, and William Wedderburn, the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million memb...
-style boycott of the British.






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The Independence Party (Hizb al-Istiqlal) was a radical Arab nationalist party established on 13 August, 1932 in Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
 during the British mandate. Its origins lay in the Istiqlal movement associated with the short-lived Sharifian
Sharifian Army

The Sharifian Army were a group of Arabs officers serving in the Military of the Ottoman Empire who were the main supporters of the Arab Revolt and who played a major role in Iraqi politics until the 1958 revolution....
 government in Damascus.

The rise of the party marked the turn by the Palestinians to mass resistance to the Zionist project and its British patrons. During the 1936-1939 Great Arab Revolt
Great Uprising

The 1936?1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine was an uprising in protest against mass Jewish Immigration, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, by Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine....
 the party called for an Indian Congress Party
Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress-I is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Allan Octavian Hume, and William Wedderburn, the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement, with over 15 million memb...
-style boycott of the British. The leader of the party Awni Abd al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi

Awni Abd al-Hadi, 1889?, was a Palestinian political figure. He was educated in Beirut, Istanbul, and at the Sorbonne University in Paris. His wife was Tarab Abdul Hadi, a Palestinian activist and feminist....
 was General Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee
Arab Higher Committee

The Arab Higher Committee was the central political organ of the Arab community of British Mandate of Palestine, established in 1936.On September 26, 1937, the British district commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews, was assassinated in Nazareth....
. The other founders of the party were Fahmi al-Abboushi
Fahmi al-Abboushi

Fahmi al-Abboushi was co-founder of the Palestinian political party Hizb al-Istiqlal along with his close associate Awni Abd al-Hadi.Abboushi was Mayor of Jenin from 1935 until he was dismissed from the post by the British in 1937, after which he lived in exile in Beirut, Lebanon....
, Muhammad Izzat Darwazah, Mu'in al-Madi, Akram Zu'aytir, Rashid al-Hajj Ibrahim, Subhi al-Khadra and Salim Salamah.