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It includes all casualties that resulted from the initial attack on civilians or non-combat military personnel. 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.
Mandatory Palestine [a] [4] 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 . [ 5 ]
Up to 1917, Zionism was tolerated as a national movement in the Ottoman Empire. After 1917, Palestine became a Mandate administrated by the British, and the right of the Jewish people to a national homeland in Palestine was recognised by the British and the League of Nations. In 1948, the state of Israel was established.
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.
The British invaded the land in 1915 and 1916 after two unsuccessful Ottoman attacks on Sinai. They were assisted by the Arab tribes in Hejaz, led by the Hashemites, and promised them sovereignty over the Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire. Palestine was excluded from the promise, initially intended to be a joint British-French domain.
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 ...
1517 Safed attacks: 1517: Safed: Mamluk supporters Unknown Many Jews subsequently fled the city [4] 1757 Hajj caravan raid: September-October 1757: Qatraneh: Bedouin highwaymen ~20,000 Hajjis killed or died of starvation/thirst Siege of Jaffa: 7 March 1799: Jaffa: Napoleon's Army 2,440–4,100 Ottoman prisoners were executed on the beaches ...
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, West Bank and the Gaza Strip) after the 1948 Palestine war. For massacres in Israel, see List of massacres in Israel. For massacres by Israel in 2023 Gaza war, see List of Israeli massacres in Gaza 2023-2024