Khalil Muhammad Issa , better known by his '' nom de guerre '' Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir , was a Palestinian Arab commander during the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine . Abu Ibrahim worked as a laborer of sorts in Haifa . It was at that time , in the 1920s , that he became a close disciple of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam . Al-Qassam had been organizing the peasants and urban dwellers of northern Palestine into an armed movement . Abu Ibrahim advocated that the movement should have commenced a revolt against the British colonial authorities in Palestine immediately in the wake of the 1929 riots so as not to allow the British an opportunity to further clamp down and weaken the Palestinian community . Following al-Qassam 's death in 1935 , he and other deputies of al-Qassam , such as Farhan al-Sa ' di and Attiyah Abu Awad , took command of rebel bands . Together , they spearheaded the 1936 revolt . Abu Ibrahim was among the leading commanders of Palestinian rebels in the Upper Galilee . His unit , which drew Qassamiyun from the villages between Haifa and Saffuriya , called themselves " al-Darawish " , which translates as " the Dervishes "
1929 riots
1929 Palestine riots
Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir