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Of the 470,000 Jews in Palestine at the time, some 30,000 served in the British Army during the war. [14] There was a Jewish battalion attached to the British Army's 1st Battalion, Royal East Kent Regiment stationed in Palestine. With the decline of the Arab Revolt by September 1939, the tensions among Jews and Arabs eased as well.
The Survey of Palestine printed 1,800 maps and plans in 1926, 19,000 in 1929, 64,000 in 1933 and 100,000 in 1939. [23] There were two schools for training Palestinian and Arab surveyors, one in Jenin that operated for one year starting 1942, and the other in Nazareth that opened in 1944. [24]
6 Arabs, 2 Jews killed in attack on Jewish convoy near Gaza [1] N/A March 28, 1948 6 6 Arabs killed while participating in attack on Jewish convoy near Rehovot [1] N/A March 30, 1948 10 8 Jews and 2 British killed while fleeing from Jaffa [1] Cairo-Haifa train bombing: March 31, 1948 40 40 Arabs killed; 60 Arabs wounded [1]
The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve Arab siege of Jews in Jerusalem. Around 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children—some were shot, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes. 4 among the Irgun and Lehi forces were killed too.
As a Jewish militia, Hashomer, was established to protect the growing number of settlements, Palestinian pharmacist Najib Nassar set up a newspaper, Al-Karmel, to warn against what he considered ...
The group also killed a number of Jews it deemed guilty of "treason." [45] [46] July 15, 1938 A bomb left in the vegetable market in Jerusalem by the Irgun injured 28. [47] July 25, 1938 The Irgun threw a bomb into the melon market in Haifa resulting in 49 deaths. [48] November 6, 1944 Lehi assassinated British minister Lord Moyne in Cairo ...
Salama had re-entered Palestine in 1944 in Operation Atlas, parachuting into the Jordan Valley as a member of a special German—Arab commando unit of the Waffen SS. [114] He coordinated with al-Husayni to execute a plan of disruption and harassment of road traffic in an attempt to isolate and blockade Western (Jewish) Jerusalem. [115] [116]
30 August – Sir John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine. 20 September – World War II: The Jewish Brigade group of the British Army is established. [1] 19 October – Irgun and Lehi members are deported by the Mandate authorities to internment camps in Africa.