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1936–1939 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine; Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, decolonisation of Asia, and the precursor to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: British soldiers on an armoured train car with two Palestinian Arab hostages used as human shields.
Individual massacres during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine are listed below. In total, during the course of these events, between September 27, 1937 – 1939, 5,000 Arabs, 415 Jews and several hundred Britons were killed.
NameDateResponsible PartyFatalitiesMarch 1, 1920Arabs13April 4–7, 1920Arabs9May 1–7, 1921Arabs95August 23–29, 1929Arabs249- Incumbents
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High Commissioner – Sir Arthur Grenfell WauchopeEmir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-HusseinPrime Minister of Transjordan – Ibrahim Hashem11 February - The founding of the moshav Rishpon.15 April - The Anabta shooting, where remnants of a Qassamite band stopped a convoy on the road from Nablus to Tulkarm near Jaffa, robbed its passengers and, stating that they were acting to reveng...16 April - two Arab workers sleeping in a hut in a banana plantation beside the highway between Petah Tikva and Yarkona were assassinated in retaliation by members of the Haganah-Bet.19 April – Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on 15 April in Jaffa and calls for a general strike begin in Nablus, marking the beginning of the 1936–1939 Ara...1 January – Ofira Navon, Israeli psychologist and wife of President Yitzhak Navon(died 1993)8 March – Ram Oren, Israeli author19 March – Uri Aviram, Israeli professor of social work23 March – Israel Eliraz, Israeli poet (died 2016)23 September - Meir Dizengoff (born 1861), Russian (Bessarabia)-born Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv
The revolt in Palestine (1936 – 1939) was in many ways the decisive episode in the efforts of the Palestinian Arabs to resist the British mandate's support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Although it helped force a British policy reassessment, which led to the 1939 white paper curtailing Jewish immigration to Palestine, ultimately ...
A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate, later known as The Great Revolt or The Great Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939, demanding Arab independence and the end of the policy of open-ended Jewish immigration and land ...
The road to the 1936 revolt. Armed struggle in the 1936 revolt. II. Early Mandate Period III. Second Mandate Period. The peaked in the same year that it began, but its origins lie in the years before this date. A series of events served as harbingers of the Revolt, paving the way for its eventual outbreak.
The Revolt combined rudimentary weapons and random guerrilla attacks with mass protests and widespread civil disobedience. It ignited the cities and small towns, driving Palestinian leaders to take a quick stand by forming the Arab Higher Committee (AHC ), which comprised all Palestinian forces and factions.
