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August - Attempts by Amir Abdullah and Nuri Pasha fail to calm the situation in Mandatory Palestine. There is an increase in the number of attacks on Palestinian Jews, and on the oil pipeline and the railways. In mid-August Jewish acts of retaliation begin. [50] August 25 - Fawzi al-Qawuqji enters Mandatory Palestine with 150 volunteer Arab ...
In a number of notable incidents the war spilled into neighbouring Mandatory Palestine, including the Battle of Tel Hai in March 1920. Further, in April 1920, Amin al-Husseini and other Arab leaders initiated the 1920 Jerusalem riots where 10 people were killed and 250 others wounded. Several women were raped and two synagogues burned.
Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II. Part of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. Part of World War II Fascist Italy United Kingdom Mandatory Palestine; Jewish Yishuv; 1944 1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Part of the Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine. Jewish Resistance Movement ...
1933 Palestine riots in Haifa [10] October 27–28, 1933 4 4 Palestinian rioters killed, 1 policeman stabbed, 3 Palestinian rioters wounded, 5 Jewish civilians injured by rioters, 4 of them seriously. Jaffa riots (April 1936) April 19–20, 1936 21 9 Jews killed, 40 Jews wounded (11 critically) in Arab attack in Jaffa. Police killed two attackers.
The following is the List of massacres in Ottoman Syria, mass atrocities committed during the Ottoman rule in Syrian provinces (region roughly corresponding the Levant) between 1517 and 1918. For massacres that took place in Roman Judea , see List of massacres in Roman Judea
Mandatory Palestine [a] [5] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant . [ 6 ]
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries – following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The mandate was assigned to Britain by the San Remo conference in April 1920, after ...
For massacres that took place in the British Mandate for Palestine, see List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine. For ancient history: For massacres that took place in classical Judea, see List of massacres in Roman Judea. For massacres that took place prior to the British Mandate, see List of massacres in Ottoman Syria.