page_title: Ayyash Al-Haj
section_title: The epic of Ain Albu Gomaa
hierarchical_section_title: Ayyash Al-Haj / The epic of Ain Albu Gomaa
caption_attribution_description: French general Maurice Sarrail (1856-1929]
context_page_description: Ayyash Al-Haj Hussein Al-Jassim, a Syrian leader from Deir al-Zour city, began the armed struggle against the French colonizer in governorate of Deir al-Zour in 1925 coinciding with the outbreak of the Great Syrian Revolution in Jabal al-Arab and Ghouta of Damascus. He was sentenced by the French to exile to Jableh city with his family after they were convicted of planning and carrying out several military operations against the French forces, the latest was in "Ain Albu Gomaa". They also sentenced his eldest son Mohammed 20 years in prison on the island of Arwad, and executed his son Mahmoud by shooting with a number of other revolutionaries.
  Shortly after Ayyash Al-Haj family's living in Jableh, The French authorities assassinated Ayyash Al-Haj in a café outside the city by poisoning his coffee, and prevented the transfer of his body to Deir Ezzor city for reasons of public security, He was buried in Jableh in the cemetery of Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham Mosque where the absent prayers held for the spirit of this martyr mujahid in all the Syrian cities.
context_section_description: There were contacts between the leaders of the Great Syrian Revolution and some patriots of Syrian east area as Mohammed ِAl-Ayyash, who met in Damascus with Dr. Abdul Rahman Shahbandar, leader of the People's Party, and discussed with him the issue of extending the revolution to the Euphrates region and opened a front against the French to disperse their forces and ease the pressure on the rebels of Ghouta and Jabal al-Arab, after returned Mohammed Al-Ayyash from Damascus he started to arouse the enthusiasm of the people of Deir Ezzor and invite them to fight, and agreed with his brother Mahmoud to go to the Villages of the Albu Saraya clan that living west of Deir ez-Zor and which have a strong friendship with his father Ayyash Al-Haj, to form revolutionary groups with them to strike the French forces.
  Mohammed Al-Ayyash managed to form a revolutionary group of thirteen armed men who were ready to take any military action against the French forces, They are:
  Mahmoud Al-Ayyash
  Hakami Al-Abed Al-Salameh (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Aziz Al-Ali Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Haji Ali Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Hassan Al-Abed Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Hamza Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Aslibi Masoud Al-Abdul Jalil (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
  Khaleef Al-Hassan Al-Muhammad (Al-Kuraitia Village).
  Lions of Hamdan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
  Ahmed Al-Hassan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
  Hameed Al-Sultan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
  Abdullah Al-Khalaf Ibrahim (Deir Ezzor city).
  Hamad Bin Rdaini – Al-Baggara tribe.
  Some people was working with the French at translation centers and others, but they were at the service of the revolutionaries which They were bringing news to Mohammed Al-Ayyash about the situation and movements of the French and their activities and the timing of their military operations and Mohammed Al-Ayyash guides the revolutionaries to strike the French forces.
  In early June 1925, the translators informed Mohammed Bey ِAl-Ayyash that a military vehicle carrying four French officers who had come from France to inspect the French military construction departments in Syria and Lebanon, accompanied by their French driver, would leave Deir Ezzor on its way to Aleppo. He instructed his brother Mahmoud to set up an ambush in the area of Ain Albu Gomaa on the road to Deir Ezzor Al-Raqqa, where the highway runs through very deep valley and has a narrow stone bridge.
  When the military vehicle arrived, the revolutionaries attacked and arrested the officers and took them with their car after they took their weapons to a desert called "Al-Aksiyya", and threw them with their driver in one of the abandoned wells where they died.
  The French were mad for losing the contact with their officers, and began a big campaign included planes to search for them and when they found their bodies and inquired about the informants of the names of the revolutionaries, the sent a large military force equipped with Heavy guns and planes to attack Albu Saraya clan and blockade it.
  French planes began bombing the villages of the clan, it was a horrific and devastating bombardment where the houses destroyed on the heads of children and women and killed the livestock and burned farms and crops, Some civilians were killed and among them were "Hanash Al-Mousa Al-Ani", "Ali Al-Najras", and a woman who was pregnant, and many were wounded by bullets and shrapnel from planes bombs, All of this was to pressure on the people to surrender the revolutionaries.
  When the French convinced that the bombing did not work, they resorted to a despicable means where they threatened to arrest the women of the revolutionaries, their mothers and sisters until the revolutionaries surrender themselves to the French, when the news arrived to the revolutionaries, they emerged from their hideouts and surrendered themselves to avoid arresting their women.
  Revolutionaries were tried in Aleppo, where The family of Ayyash Al-Haj appointed lawyer Fathallah Al-Saqqal to defend her, The court heard (officer Bono) head of the French intelligence in Deir Ezzor, wh
caption: French General Maurice Sarrail, The High Commissioner of the French Mandate of Syria
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