An Arab named Ali Sassami, belonging to the village of Sassa, near Safed, who is believed to be a member of the Ahmed Tapish terrorist gang which operated in the Safed district after the massacres of August 1929, has been arrested at Acre on suspicion of having been one of the gang which ambushed during Passover a group of Jewish workers returning from the Nesher Cement Factory to their homes in the Jewish Labour Settlement of Yadjur, and killed three of its members.
Ahmed Tapish is a notorious brigand leader, who after the Palestine disturbances of August 1929 fled to Transjordan and was extradited by aeroplane in May 1930 to stand his trial for complicity in the murder of Dr. Isaac Mamaan, the head of the Hadassah Hospital in Safed. He was found not guilty on this charge, but he was found guilty of participation in the murder of Mrs. Hannah Cohen, who was also killed in the Safed massacre and on this charge he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
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