Fedayeen

Fedayeen (Arabic: فِدائيّين‎ fidāʼīyīn [fɪdaːʔɪjiːn])[note A] is a term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice themselves for a larger campaign.

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CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

formations and adopting new tactics, as the Iraqi Fedayeen did in 2003 and the Islamic State of Iraq and


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 18 August 2023 English

Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922–2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian …

This period was signified by the rise of the Fedayeen movement—a national movement of Palestinian resistance but energized the national movements led by the Fedayeen. To pacify resistance in the Strip, then Israeli


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 1 March 2022 English

Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority …

West Bank into Jordan. They were soon joined by fedayeen from Syria and Lebanon, and Jordan became the however, as far as tactics went. While many fedayeen were affiliated with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah, u village of Lydda. During the late 1960s, the fedayeen became an increasingly bold presence in Jordan Hussein was reluctant to deal too harshly with the fedayeen, since they enjoyed the support of much of the far northeast of Amman, and shortly after that fedayeen attacked the Jordanian intelligence headquarters


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 27 September 2021 English

"Gaza City is one of the most ancient cultural centres on the Mediterranean, and its people have long been a backbone of the Palestinian national movement. How Gazan women describe …

This period was signified by the rise of the Fedayeen movement—a national movement of Palestinian resistance but energized the national movements led by the Fedayeen. To pacify resistance in the Strip, then Israeli They did this in order to supress and arrest the Fedayeen and the activists. It was then that my grandfather’s prison or there were problems concerning the Fedayeen, or any other troubles at the district level kilometres from Gaza, who was active with the Fedayeen. He was caught by the British soldiers and imprisoned


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2020 English

Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation bear …

This period was signified by the rise of the Fedayeen movement—a national movement of Palestinian resistance but energized the national movements led by the Fedayeen. To pacify resistance in the Strip, then Israeli killed in Hebron and the English searched for Fedayeen. There were dozens of Jewish families in Hebron


11 September 2014 French

It stands to reason that the likelihood of being involved in certain types of campaigns, and the frequency of involvement, and the FD implications will be different for the US …

Chechnya in the 1990s, the Boer War, and the Iraqi Fedayeen circa 2003 as relevant historical examples. While


IDRC: Les Éditions du CRDI · 2009 English

Regular interviews conducted in Qalyubiyyah Governorate Note: Throughout the text, each quotation from an interview is followed by a code indicating the category of visit, the governorate, the number of …

The confrontation ends with the expulsion of the fedayeen from Jordan in July 1971. 28 September 1970: by the Egyptian high command to transform his fedayeen—who were paid out of the Egyptian administration next section). In addition to the Mustafa Hafi z fedayeen, other Palestinian battalions were formed as so-called ‘Palestine Brigade’ or who participated in fedayeen operations.”50 During these screening operations Palestinian civilians were killed.51 Thousands of fedayeen, Palestinian border guards, and Palestinian and


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 April 2006 English

In the fall of 1956, the world was on the brink of war. Egyptian President Gamel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and Britain, France, and Israel attacked him. Russia supported …

attacks increased across the 1949 armistice lines. Fedayeen (partisans) from Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria


YCISS: York Centre for International and Security Studies · 4 March 2005 English

Many accepted this discourse and the war that it represented because the discourse, so frequently and successfully communicated, has traveled into the sacred territory of ‘common knowledge.’ According to Belsey …

blaming ‘Saddam’s Fedayeen’ for the war. A few days later, however, they stopped using ‘Fedayeen’ because they


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