The epic battle of Ain Albu Gomaa
Part ofGreat Syrian Revolt
Date 3 June 1925 Location Deir ez-Zor,Mandatory Syria Result The execution of 13 revolutionaries and exile of the family ofAyyash ِAl-Haj toJableh (Mandatory Syria)
Belligerents
France Syria  Lebanon	Syrian revolutionaries

Theepic battle of Ain Albu Gomaa (Arabic:ملحمة عين البو جمعة) was a military operation carried out by revolutionary groups in the city ofDeir Ezzor in early June 1925 against theFrench forces during theGreat Syrian Revolution.^[1]

There were contacts between theleaders of theGreat Syrian Revolution and some patriots ofSyrian east area asMohammed ِAl-Ayyash, who met inDamascus with Dr.Abdul Rahman Shahbandar, leader of the People's Party, and discussed with him the issue of extending the revolution to theEuphrates region and opened a front against theFrench to disperse their forces and ease the pressure on the rebels ofGhouta andJabal al-Arab, after returnedAl-Ayyash fromDamascus he started to arouse the enthusiasm of the people ofDeir Ezzor and invite them to fight, and agreed with his brotherMahmoud to go to thevillages of the Albu Sarayaclan that living west ofDeir ez-Zor and which have a strong friendship with his fatherAyyash Al-Haj, to form revolutionary groups with them to strike theFrench forces.^[2][3][4]

Al-Ayyash managed to form a revolutionary group of thirteen armed men who were ready to take any military action against theFrench forces, They are:^[5][6][7][8]

1. Mahmoud Al-Ayyash
2. Hakami Al-Abed Al-Salameh (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
3. Aziz Al-Ali Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
4. Haji Ali Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
5. Hassan Al-Abed Al-Salamah (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
6. Hamza Al-Abed Al-Salama (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
7. Aslibi Masoud Al-Abdul Jalil (Al-Shumaitiya Village).
8. Khaleef Al-Hassan Al-Muhammad (Al-Kuraitia Village).
9. Lions of Hamdan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
10. Ahmed Al-Hassan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
11. Hameed Al-Sultan (Al-Kuraitia Village).
12. Abdullah Al-Khalaf Ibrahim (Deir Ezzor city).
13. Hamad Bin Rdaini -Al-Baggaratribe.

Some people worked with theFrench at translation centers and others. Still, they were at the service of therevolutionaries which They were bringing news toMohammed ِAl-Ayyash about the situation and movements of theFrench and their activities and the timing of their military operations andAl-Ayyash guides therevolutionaries to strike theFrench forces.

In early June 1925, thetranslators informedMohammed ِbey Al-Ayyash that a military vehicle carrying fourFrench officers who had come fromFrance to inspect theFrench military construction departments inMandatory Syria andGreater Lebanon, accompanied by their French driver, would leaveDeir Ezzor on its way toAleppo. He instructed his brotherMahmoud to set up an ambush in the area of Ain Albu Gomaa on the road toDeir EzzorAl-Raqqa, where the highway runs through very deepvalley and has a narrow stonebridge.^{[9][10][11][12]}

When the military vehicle arrived, therevolutionaries attacked and arrested theofficers and took them with their car after they took their weapons to adesert called "Al-Aksiyya", and threw them with their driver in one of the abandoned wells where they died.^[14][15][16]

The French were mad for losing contact with theirofficers, and began an extensive campaign includedplanes to search for them. When they found their bodies and inquired from the informants about the names of therevolutionaries, they sent a sizeable military force equipped withheavy guns and planes to attack Albu Sarayaclan andblockade it.

French planes began bombing thevillages of theclan, it was a horrific and devastating bombardment where the houses destroyed on the heads of children and women and killed thelivestock and burned farms andcrops, Some civilians were killed and among them were "Hanash Al-Mousa Al-Ani," "Ali Al-Najras," and a woman who waspregnant. Many were wounded bybullets and shrapnel fromplanesbombs, All of this was to pressure on the people to surrender therevolutionaries.

When theFrench is convinced that thebombing did not work, they resorted to a despicable means where they threatened toarrest the women of therevolutionaries, their mothers and sisters until therevolutionaries surrender themselves to theFrench, when the news arrived at therevolutionaries, they emerged from their hideouts and surrendered themselves to avoid arresting their women.^[17][18]

Revolutionaries were tried inAleppo, where The family ofAyyash Al-Haj appointedlawyer Fathallah Al-Saqqal to defend her, Thecourt heard (officer Bono) head of theFrench intelligence inDeir Ezzor, who said: If each of thecriminals, who committed this terrible offense deservedying once, thegang leader Mohammed Al-Ayyash is deservehanging twice.^[19][20][21]

The French High Commissioner inBeirut,Maurice Sarrail, issued Decision No. 49S / 5 in August 1925, which ordered theexile of all members of theAyyash Al-Haj family to the city ofJableh,Mahmoud ِAl-Ayyash and 12 of his companions were sentenced todeath. Theexecution was carried out by firing squad on 15 September 1925 in the city ofAleppo.Mohammed ِAl-Ayyash was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on theisland ofArwad inTartous city.^[22]

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  Ibrahim Hananu
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  Abd Al-Rahman Shahbandar
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  Hasan al-Kharrat
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  Fawzi al-Qawuqji

• Military history of Deir ez-Zor
• Great Syrian Revolt
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