The "peace bands" (fasa'il al-salam) or "Nashashibi units" were made up of disaffected Arab peasants recruited by the British administration and the Nashashibis in late 1938 to battle against Arab rebels during the revolt. Despite their peasant origins the bands were representative mainly of the interests of landlords and rural notables. Some peace bands also sprang up in the Nablus area, on Mount Carmel (a stronghold of the Druze who largely opposed the rebellion after 1937), and around Nazareth without connection to the Nashashibi-Husayni power struggle.From December 1937 the main opposition figures among the Arabs approached the Jewish Agency for funding and assistance, motivated by the assassination campaign pursued by the rebels at the behest of the Husseini leadership. In October 1937, shortly after Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the leader of the Arab Higher Committee, had fled from Palestine to escape British retribution, Raghib al-Nashashibi had written to Moshe Shertok stating his full willingness to co-operate with the Jewish Agency and to agree with whatever policy it proposed. From early in 1938 the Nashashibis received funding specifically to conduct anti-rebel operations, with Raghib al-Nashashibi himself receiving £5,000. The British also supplied funding to the peace bands and sometimes directed their operations.Fakhri Nashashibi was particularly successful in recruiting peace bands in the Hebron hills, on one occasion in December 1938 gathering 3,000 villagers for a rally in Yata, also attended by the British military commander of the Jerusalem District General Richard O'Connor.Just two months earlier, on 15 October 1938, rebels had seized the Old City and barricaded the gates. O'Connor had planned the operation by which men of the Coldstream Guards, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and Black Watch recaptured the Old City, killing 19 rebels. He was later to win fame as the field commander for Operation Compass in World War II, in which his forces completely destroyed a much larger Italian army—a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel to try to reverse the situation.Towards the end of the revolt in May 1939 the authorities dissolved the peace bands and confiscated their arms. However, because members of the bands had become tainted in the eyes of the Palestinian Arabs, and some were under sentence of death, they had little choice but to continue the battle against the national movement's leadership, which they did with the continuing help of the Zionist movement.
The Haganah (Hebrew for "defence"), a Jewish paramilitary organisation, actively supported British efforts to suppress the uprising, which reached 10,000 Arab fighters at their peak during the summer and fall of 1938. Although the British administration did not officially recognise the Haganah, the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police, and Special Night Squads. The Special Night Squads engaged in activities described by colonial administrator Sir Hugh Foot, as 'extreme and cruel' involving torture, whipping, abuse and execution of Arabs.The British authorities maintained, financed and armed the Jewish police from this point onward until the end of the Mandate, and by the end of September 1939 around 20,000 Jewish policeman, supernumeraries and settlement guards had been authorised to carry arms by the government, which also distributed weapons to outlying Jewish settlements, and allowed the Haganah to acquire arms. Independently of the British, Ta'as, the Haganah's clandestine munitions industry, developed an 81-mm mortar and manufactured mines and grenades, 17,500 of the latter being produced for use during the revolt.In June 1937, the British imposed the death penalty for unauthorised possession of weapons, ammunition, and explosives, but since many Jews had permission to carry weapons and store ammunition for defence this order was directed primarily against Palestinian Arabs and most of the 112 executed in Acre Prison were hanged for illegal possession of arms.In principle all of the joint units functioned as part of the British administration, but in practice they were under the command of the Jewish Agency and "intended to form the backbone of a Jewish military force set up under British sponsorship in preparation for the inevitable clash with the Arabs." The Agency and the Mandate authorities shared the costs of the new units equally. The administration also provided security services to Jewish commercial concerns at cost.Jewish and British officials worked together to co-ordinate manhunts and collective actions against villages and also discussed the imposition of penalties and sentences. Overall, the Jewish Agency was successful in making "the point that the Zionist movement and the British Empire were standing shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy, in a war in which they had common goals."The rebellion also inspired the Jewish Agency to expand the intelligence-gathering of its Political Department and especially of its Arab Division, with the focus changing from political to military intelligence. The Arab Division set up a network of Jewish controllers and Arab agents around the country. Some of the intelligence gathered was shared with the British administration, the exchange of information sometimes being conducted by Moshe Shertok, then head of the Jewish Agency, directly with the high commissioner himself. Shertok also advised the administration on political affairs, on one occasion convincing the high commissioner not to arrest Professor Joseph Klausner, a Revisionist Maximalist activist who had played a key role in the riots of 1929, because of the likely negative consequences.
ペルージャなどのユースを経て1998年にACアンコーナとプロ契約。その後はSSCナポリ、FCメッシーナと渡り歩き、セリエBの舞台で経験を積む。特にメッシーナ時代はお世辞にも強いといえなかったディフェンスの後方で孤軍奮闘していた。2004–05シーズンにメッシーナがセリエA昇格を果たしたことにともない、27歳にしてトップリーグデビューを飾った。2007年1月17日にジーダ、ジェリコ・カラッツに次ぐ第3GKとしてACミランへ入団。ただ出場機会はほとんどなく、8月12日にスペインのレバンテUDへの2年間のレンタル移籍が決定した。レバンテでは開幕からレギュラーを務めていたが、給料の支払いを巡るトラブルが発生したため年明け早々に契約解除。2008年1月9日にカリアリ・カルチョにレンタル移籍しわずか半年でイタリアに戻った。カリアリでもレギュラーを務め、途中加入ながら20試合に出場した。7月15日になると今度はフィオレンティーナにレンタル移籍したが、セバスティアン・フレイの前に出場機会には恵まれなかった。2009年7月16日にミランへ復帰。カラッツの退団・クリスティアン・アッビアーティの負傷・代役を務めていたジーダの不安定なプレーもあり、2009-10シーズンは開幕からスタメンの座を勝ち取り安定したセービングを見せていた。10月7日に契約を2012年まで延長したが、その直後の10月18日に負傷してしまいジーダにポジションを譲った。イタリアのメディアによると、怪我の原因は練習中にレネ・イギータのスコーピオンキックの真似をしていたためであるという。2010年1月15日、サンプドリアにシーズン終了までの期限付きで移籍。負傷したルカ・カステラッツィの代わりに正GKを務め、大車輪の活躍をみせて4位に入りUEFAチャンピオンズリーグ出場権獲得に貢献した。シーズン終了後にはGoal.comのベストイレヴンに選出された。2010年6月23日、ユヴェントスへの完全移籍が発表された。移籍金は450万ユーロ。。当初はジャンルイジ・ブッフォンの控えという位置づけだったが、ブッフォンがW杯で負傷したため代役を務めることになり結果的に23試合に出場。チームは7位に低迷したが、ブッフォンの穴を埋めた。次のシーズンはブッフォンが復帰したため控えに戻ったが、ブッフォンが欠場した試合やコッパ・イタリアでは安定した守りを見せ、9季ぶりのスクデット獲得に貢献した。2014-15シーズン終了後、ユヴェントスとの契約を満了。セリエBに降格したカリアリに移籍決定。2017年1月10日、シーズン終了までの半年間の契約でACミランに復帰した。正GKのジャンルイジ・ドンナルンマのバックアッパーとしてプレーし、2017年6月7日に1年間の新契約を結んだ。