The Army of the Holy War or Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) was a force of Palestinian irregulars in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war. Historians described this as the "personal" army of the Husayni family.
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni arrived in the Jerusalem sector in December 1947 with about a hundred men. He established his headquarters at Bir Zeit and started to recruit volunteers to organise the siege of Jerusalem in attacking the Jewish convoys to the city. With a thousand men, Hasan Salama took responsibility of the operations in the Lydda and Ramle sectors, at the entry of the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road.
After the death of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni on April 8, 1948, Haj Amin al-Husayni gave the commandership to Emil Ghuri
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