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Contributed: "I am American, but my father is Palestinian. I have never been there,
and I do not speak fluent Arabic, but I feel a need to see the small
town (Asira shamaleya, outside Nablus) where my family came from
My
surname is Douglas and my first name is an Arabic one - Douglas isn't
traditionally Palestinian but there are a lot of "Daghlas" family
members in Asira). "
From time to time, I have received requests
for information about the source of the surname Daghlas. On
receiving the above message, I decided it was time to look deeper into
the origins of the name. The following are my notes:
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Hunger strike starting in mid-July 2016 Ohli Kedar Prison: Nidal Douglas
– Nablus
• Nidal Daghlas, the man in whose house Abu Hanoud
was said to have sheltered, was wounded and arrested by the Israelis,
who then flattened the building with bulldozers. Abu Hanoud's relatives
called this an act of wanton revenge for the operation's failure.
Israeli officials said Mr Daghlas was a terrorist, although he was
living openly and earlier this year was released without charge after
two months in detention.
• ...wanted Mujhaid Abu Hannoud.
Close to that complex there was a house of one of his relatives named
Nidhal Daghles Abu Yassin.... The occupation troops wounded owner of the
house Nidhal Daghles in the chest and feet and he could not get out of
the house due to his severe injuries. Two hours later the enemy soldiers
stormed the house and dragged Daghles out of it for more than 50 meters.
They started torturing him, beating his wounds, to force him provide
information on the Mujahid Abu Hannoud.
• IOF units barged
into another village near Nablus and attacked the home of Wael Daghles.
Reliable sources in Burqa village said that the soldiers asked for
Daghles’s son Tarek, who was summoned to the intelligence office but did
not show up. (2011 report)
• Ghassan Mohammad Bakr Daghlas (غسان دغلس)
was appointed governor of Nablus in March 2024 by President Mahmoud
Abbas. He replaced Ibrahim Ramadan. Daghlas was previously responsible
for monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank. He has extensive knowledge and expertise on the issue of Israeli settlement in the West Bank, which is a controversial and highly disputed topic. The Israeli government has established a number of settlements in the West Bank, which are considered by many Palestinians and international organizations to be illegal under international law. Ghassan Douglas works to monitor and document settlement activity in the West Bank, and has been involved in efforts to oppose and resist settlement expansion in the region.
• Bryce Douglas killed Palestine 1917
A replacement company of Punjabi Mohammedans from the 101st Grenadiers,
commanded by Lieutenant B. Douglas, was attached to 58th Vaughan’s
Rifles (Frontier Force) in Gaza and joined A’ Company (Captain R.B.
Kitson) made up of two platoons Dogras and two platoons Yusafzais.
Captain Kitson observed a Turkish counter-attack forming-up against the
brigade, and so he forestalled it by immediately attacking the enemy
himself. During the fierce fighting that followed both Captain Richard
Buller Kitson and Lieutenant Bryce Douglas were killed along with 23
Grenadiers, additionally three Indian officers and 42 jawans (1)
were wounded. The company had bought time for British mounted troops to
appear, and the British operation succeeded. Reports indicated that
after the sepoys who had been cut-off in El Kefr village surrendered,
those that were Sikh and Hindu were killed by the villagers.
•
Ibrahim Douglas from Nablus | Facebook ????
• Yasmin Douglas
from Nablus | Facebook ????
• Palestinian hospital
official Qasim Daghlas
• Ahmad Daghlas is a fashion
photographer who often captures images of daily life in Ramallah on his
Instagram. He posts beautiful images of cafes, nature, dance festivals
and Palestinian cuisine.
• Fares Daghlas has been
appointed Director of Sales and Marketing at the Mövenpick Hotel &
Apartments Bur Dubai. He was most recently with the Mövenpick Hotel Ibn
Battuta Gate Dubai as Director of Sales.
• Palestinian
political prisoners killed as a result of torture at the hands of
Israeli military interrogators: Majid Daghlas,
• Abdul Hadi
Daghlas aka Abu Taisir AMZ's relative - Al-Qaeda WMD expert Dead
• Jordanian basketball legend Sam Daghlas
Osama Mohd Fathi
Daghles, commonly known by the nickname Sam Daghles (born September 18,
1979), is a Chinese-born American-Jordanian professional basketball
player of Palestinian origin.
• Dema hisham Douglas (Dema
Hesham Doughoz)
• Campbell Douglas: My architect
g-g-grandfather Campbell Douglas Born: 14 June 1828. Died: 14 April 1910
coincidentally designed the Scots Mission Hospital over there in
Tiberius (1885). I wonder if he got up to anything else?
•
Through April 2002 four Palestinian women have become suicide bombers
on....Ahlam Al-Tamimi (currently on the FBI's most wanted list)
reportedly worked with Mohamed Daghles, a member of the Palestinian
Authority security body, and the two are linked to at least ...
•
Muhammed Wali Daghles, a Hamas activist (a prisoner?) Aged 30 in 2001.
Comment: It
appears Tamini was Mohamed's girlfriend, and that he recruited her into
a team, Force 17, responsible for the bombing of Sbarro restaurant in
Jerusalem, killing 15 civilians on 9th August 2001.
• Atef Daghlas - author of
The suffering of the Palestinian patient under the Israeli occupation
• Mahmoud Daghlas, TIMA Producer - Worked As A Cameraman, as a
filming trainer & Editor&SNG Operator&Technical Director But now
a
Producer
• Mahmoud Daghlas, a senior in electrical
engineering (2014)
• Nour Daghlas, born in Nablus, college student. ... who attends Birzeit University in the West Bank, (2016)
•
Abdul Hadi
Daghlas, known as Abu Taisir, was a Jordanian man and a relative of Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi. He was Zarqawi's top lieutenant in Iraq.
He
travelled to the Khurmal camp in Iraqi Kurdistan from Tehran, Iran. The
Central Intelligence Agency traced his satellite phone and located him.
On the second day of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, more than 40 American
cruise missiles hit the town of Khurmal in Iraqi Kurdistan. Abdul Hadi
Daghlas was among the dead. (Wikipedia) also known as Abu 'Ubayda. He
had earlier been arrested by the Jordanian security forcesin 1999. Was
possibly based at Herat Military Training Camp.
Al-Zarqawi had made
of Kurdistan a stepping stone for his operations in Iraq.
In August
2001, he held a meeting with his close aides, Khalid al-‘Arouri and Abdal-Hadi Daghlas, to establish training camps for them in Kurdistan to
recruit more Arab-Afghans. A dispute between Al-Shami and Al-Zarqawi
prompted the latter to bring Abd al-Hadi Daghlas (one of his
confidants) from Afghanistan to Kurdistan to directly oversee the
training camps there.
• Haya Daghlas, engineer - see:
https://www.graduatehouse.com.au/the-graduate-pathway-of-haya-daghlas/
• Loay Tawfiq Daghlas Director of Arab Bank Beitunia branch,
Ramallah.
In 2004, Daghlas graduated from Faculty of Administrative
and Financial Sciences at AAU to receive an accounting BA.
In 2005,
he began working at Arab Bank Tulkarm branch and then went to Ramallah
working in the same institution. He held several positions including
Deputy Director of Al-Manar branch. Now, Mr. Douglas is working as
director of Arab Bank Beitunia branch, Ramallah.
• "The
center has no intention of caving in to the pressure and change its
name, the head of Burqa village council, Sami Daghlas, said... He said
the name Dalal Mughrabi was chosen by the villagers to commemorate a
Palestinian hero (emphasis added, Ed.) who sacrificed herself for her
country and therefore they have no intention to change its name
regardless of the price." (2017) Sami Daghlas aged 58 in
2017.
• From Burqa – a village
near Jenin – Heba Daghlas, 30,
http://www.tomorrowsyouth.org/2012/11/wise-profile-heba-daghlas/
• Dr Murad M. Daghles is a member of the Corporate practice group
at Allen & Overy. He advises national and international corporations on
complex national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as on German
corporate, take-over and related capital market law and corporate
governance matters. Dr Murad M. Daghles also specialises in corporate
litigation matters, i.e. post M&A disputes, disputes between
shareholders, and respresents companies or members of management boards
in legal disputes in relation to management affairs and executive
compensation. Dr Murad M. Daghles completed his doctorate on legal
questions of Islam in Germany. http://www.allenovery.com/people/en-gb/Pages/Murad-Daghles.aspx
• Ahmed SNU writes that he has discovered a Douglas connection
though his DNA.
• In Oct 1977, The Glasgow Herald reported
that Mr James Charleson Douglas, 20 Back Road. Dailly, an 83-year old
Ayrshire man, who was married on March 2, 1928 was granted a divorce
from Mrs Janet Douglas, address unknown. At the time of the marriage, Mr
Douglas was serving with the Palestine police. They lived together for a
year.
http://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sergeant-james-charleson-douglas-colonial-police
• Even though Osama Jamil Daghlas is only 16 years old
(September 2017), this did not prevent a group of 20 grown Israeli
settlers from attempting to lynch him. He was playing with his cousin
Salah in the open fields near his village of Burqa, north of Nablus,
when a group of 20 settlers attacked them. According to his father,
Jamil, a shepherd found him unconscious with his clothes torn.
•
The soldiers assaulted many nonviolent protesters, before abducting Dr.
Sami Daghlas, and journalist Ja’far Eshteyya, and took them to an
unknown destination. (May 2017)
• Sami Daglas Works at
Palestinian Medical Relief Society; Studied at Al-Najah University
• Ahmad Daghlas is a
31-year-old photographer and graphic designer who lives and works in
Ramalah. (May 2014)
• Possibly a list of those involved in
court cases - I stress that this is unconfirmed: Ahmad Daghlas · Alaa
Daghlas · Amal Daghlas · Ayman Daghlas · Bashar Daghlas · Basher Daghlas
· Fajer Daghlas · Khadijeh Daghlas · Mahannad Daghlas · Mohannad Daghlas
· Mustafa Daghlas · Osama Daghlas · Rasha Daghlas · Sabah Daghlas · Sami
Daghlas · Sarah Daghlas.
• Anwar Douglas elected vice
president of Arab engineers; his nephew is Ghassan Daghlas, of Nablus;
Former Director at Delta Petroleum Products Trading Co.
•
Abdalhadi Deghles, Lecturer at Al Istiqlal University; Studied
Environmental Engineering at Yildiz Teknik Universitesi Davutpaşa
• Contributed: "Daghlas' main geographical region is
Burqa. All the Daghlas I've known (and I know A LOT) originate from
Burqa and either live in UAE/ Iraq/ Jordan/ Egypt/ UK/ USA/ Chile/
Venezuela".
•
Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Daghlas' Palace
was built c 1890 by the former Sheikh of Nisf Jubeil and 4 other villages.
Abdel Hamid, although the ruler of more than 3 villages, have chosen his palace to be in Nisf Jubeil for its strategic location, water source, and more importantly its mixed population. Nisf Jubeil was the only village that had a huge diversity of religious affiliations, and a mix of residents from various families.
• 'Omar Muhammad Sa'id Daghlas, res. 'Asireh a-Shmliyyah,
Nablus Dist., age 25, bachelor, student, has a security record. (Residents of the West Bank Deported Under Temporary Deportation Order for 24 Months, Signed by OC Central Command Dani Yatom on December 16, 1992.)
• In October 2023, Israeli occupation forces invaded and
searched a number of citizens’ homes before abducting (sic) 15
Palestinian citizens, including Moataz Daghlas and Majed Daghlas, in the
northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the surrounding towns and
villages of Qusra, Yatma, Burqa, Beita, Talouza, and Asira al-Shamaliya.
• Major Fadi Daghlas- in 2022, the Deputy Director of the
Department of Family and Juvenile Protection in Jenin.
•
Abdul Hadi Daghlas aka Abu Taisir, no longer a threat to the United
States (2006)
Notable Palestinians
Notes:
1. Jawan - A junior soldier, especially an
infantryman
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Sources
Sources for this article include:
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Google, DuckDuckGo and other web searches
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted These notes are just the beginning. Help to
link the above people and unravel to origins of this branch of our
family would be welcome.
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