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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the decolonisation of Asia, and the precursor to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict From top to bottom, left to right: British military parade in Jerusalem Palestinian Arab insurgents during ...
The Great Arab Revolt 1936, a vehicle for removing nails from the road. A general strike involving many Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, encompassing labor, transportation, and commercial activities, commenced on April 19, 1936, extending until October of the same year.
Arab revolt in Palestine: A photograph of Palestinian guerillas, c. 1936. 11 February - The founding of the moshav Rishpon. [1]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 revenge the death of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, shot 3 Jewish passengers, two ...
The Arab revolt in Palestine was unsuccessful, and its consequences affected the outcome of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. [137] It led to the British administration giving crucial support to Zionist paramilitaries such as the Haganah, whereas on the Palestinian Arab side, the revolt forced Amin al-Husseini, the main Palestinian Arab leader of ...
This region has also been referred to historically as the Land of Canaan, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land, the Promised Land, and Palestine. This region has been ruled over by many nations, including the Canaanites , Israelites , Judeans , Romans , Rashidun Caliphates , Crusaders , Ottoman Empire , British Empire , and today, Israel and ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
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 ]
[20] [21] In The Blood of His Servants, Malcolm MacPherson writes of 19 April as the day when the Arab revolt on Palestine began, and a "campaign of armed attacks" started. [ 22 ] [ page needed ] In his 1968 work , Days of Fire , Shmuel Katz , a senior member of the Irgun , wrote of arriving in Tel Aviv from Jerusalem on 19 April to find the ...