September 8, 2026

Members of the Palestinian Higher Committee exiled by the British mandatory power in Palestine to the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean. From right to left: Dr. Hussein Al-Khalidi – Yaqoub Bey Al-Ghussein – Rashid Al-Haj Ibrahim – Ahmad Hilmi Pasha. Missing from the picture is Fouad Saba, the fifth member of the Committee – Photograph taken in the Seychelles in 1937 or 1938.