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al-Qassam was a key figure in the 1921 revolt against the French and took refuge in Haifa in the British Mandate Of Palestine after fleeing Syria under sentence of death. He concentrated his activities on the lower classes, setting up a night school for casual labourers. He was also a prominent member of the Young Men's Muslim Association . In 1929 he was appointed the marriage registrar in the Sharia court in Haifa, a role that allowed him to tour the northern villages, whose inhabitants he encouraged to set up growing and distribution cooperatives. He recruited and arranged military training for peasants who were organized into clandestine cells of no more than five people. By 1935 he had enlisted somewhere between 200 and 800 men. al-Qassam was a militant preacher who rejected the moderate approach towards the British taken by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al-Husayni , and the Supreme Muslim Council . When the Mufti rejected his plans to divert funding for mosque repairs towards the purchase of weaponry, Qassam found support in the Arab Nationalist Istiqlal Party . Qassam continued to attempt an alliance with the Mufti in order to attack the British but failed as the Mufti was still committed to a diplomatic approach at the time. Qassam went ahead with his plans to attack the British on his own and was soon killed in 1935. Although al-Qassam's revolt had no success, radical organizations gained inspiration from his revolutionary project. He became a popular hero and his grave became a place of pilgrimage. The strike forces of Hamas (the Izz al-Din al-Qassam battalions) are named after him. The Qassam Rocket is named after the brigades who use them. EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES
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