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After the partition decision was issued and signs of revolt appeared in Palestine, the Supreme Command of the Fighters in Palestine issued several communiqués and statements required by the circumstances. One was Communiqué No. 1, announcing the beginning of jihad.

This was followed by Statement No. 2, dated 14 December 1947. It warned the Palestinians against the enemies’ treachery and schemes because they infiltrated secretly among the people, sometimes disguised in British soldiers’ uniforms and sometimes in Arab dress, throwing bombs and explosives that killed innocents, destroyed houses and homes, and caused great damage to lives, money, and property. The statement warned the people to intensify guarding in the cities and villages day and night; avoid gatherings and assemblies in squares, streets, markets, and public places; and beware unknown or suspected persons, especially Eastern Jews, such as Jews from Yemen and other Arab countries, who had committed many atrocities. It ended with these words: “Through your vigilance and attention, prevent the repetition of the painful tragedies they inflicted on you in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Haifa, Ramle, al-Tira, al-Abbasiyya, Yazur, Balad al-Shaykh, and elsewhere. Protect yourselves and your property from their schemes and treachery.”

“If you are patient and Godfearing, their schemes will not harm you at all. God encompasses what they do.”

This was followed by Statement No. 3, dated 15 December 1947, calling on the people to prepare themselves, retain their weapons and acquire more as far as possible, refrain from firing them wastefully into the air, and take care to aim them at the enemies’ chests.

This was followed by Communiqué No. 4, dated 16 December 1947, titled “Strive in the path of God with your wealth and your lives.” It called on all Arabs and Muslims to support their brother fighters in Palestine and began with the following paragraphs:

“To all of you we direct this appeal in these difficult times, when the Jews’ terrible aims have appeared and the curtain has been lifted from their conspiracy throughout the earth to fight the Arabs and Muslims in all their countries, homelands, and lands, and their work to establish a Jewish state in the land of holy Palestine, which your honored forefathers defended throughout the ages, giving for its sake the lives of millions of righteous martyrs whose pure bodies lie throughout its blessed soil. God singled it out for the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, to which He carried His Prophet Muhammad, and also singled it out as the cradle of our lord Jesus Christ.”