Ayyash Al-Haj

[1][2][3][4] Shortly after Al-Haj and his family were sent to Jableh, he was assassinated by the French authorities in a café outside of the city by poisoning his coffee, and prevented the transfer of his body to his hometown in Deir Ez-zor for reasons of public security.

He founded a revolutionary group in Deir ez-Zor governorate that carried out several armed operations against the French forces, the most prominent of which was the epic battle of Ain Albu Juma.

[29] Patriot, Ahmed was characterized by a strong personality, generosity and magnanimity; he was elected president of the Workers Union in 1932 following the "Al Meera" incident, where he led a group of men, broke locks, and opened grain stores for people, that were monopolized by France, he was leading demonstrations against the French and was imprisoned more than once for his nationalist positions.

[30][31][32] He founded the Cultural House Club in Deir Ezzor in 1944, where he gave his literary and historical lectures and invited most of the Euphrates intellectuals at that time, among the guests was the great poet Mohammed Al-Furati.

[36] He founded and headed the "Adiyat" Society in Deir Ezzor in 1958; He presided over the Supreme Council for the Welfare of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences in the United Arab Republic in 1961, where he continued fighting for the codification of the Euphrates Valley civilization.

[38][39][40] He died in Deir Ezzor in 1974 after he enriched the Arab Library with more than 117 books in the field of history, folklore and literature, President Hafez al-Assad described him in his condolence message sent to his relative as "Lost of the homeland".

[41][42][43] 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 the returning of Mohammed Al-Ayyash from Damascus he started to raise the enthusiasm of the people of Deir Ezzor and invited them to fight, he agreed with his brother Mahmoud to go to the villages of the Albu Saraya clan who resided on the West of Deir ez-Zor and had a strong friendship with his father Ayyash Al-Haj, to form a revolutionary group with them to strike the French forces.

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 a profound valley and has a narrow stone bridge.

[48] When the military vehicle arrived, the revolutionaries attacked and arrested the officers and took them with their car to a desert called "Al-Aksiyya," and threw them with their driver in one of the abandoned wells where they died.

Hanging bridge, Deir al zor.
Mohammed Bey Al-Ayyash
Ahmed Al-Ayyash
Abdul Qader Al-Ayyash
French General Maurice Sarrail , The High Commissioner of the French Mandate of Syria
Hassan Al-Abed Al-Salamah, the moment of his execution by the French occupation