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The Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine was unsuccessful, and its consequences affected the outcome of the 1948 Palestine war. [30] It caused the British Mandate to give crucial support to pre-state Zionist militias like the Haganah , whereas on the Palestinian Arab side, the revolt forced the flight into exile of the main Palestinian Arab ...
1 Arab policeman, 15 Arab demonstrators shot by British forces, 1 Arab child hit by a stray bullet. [10] 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 ...
Prominent Arab figures in Palestine accused the Palestine police of exclusively firing at Arab rioters and not Jewish ones. [79] Most Jewish casualties resulted from Arab attacks, although the British authorities noted in the Shaw Report that "possibly some of the Jewish casualties were caused by rifle fire by the police or military forces." [78]
Many returned in 1931, but almost all were evacuated at the outbreak of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine. The massacre formed part of the 1929 Palestine riots, in which a total of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs were killed, the majority of the latter by British police and military, [5] and brought the centuries-old Jewish presence in Hebron to an ...
The riots included destroying Arab-owned cars, throwing firebombs at Arab houses, as well as assaulting and stone throwing at Arabs on the streets of the city. [7] On 18 November, Palestinians in East Jerusalem declared a general strike in protest against the riots. [8] Palestinian schools in Jerusalem also closed early due to the riots. [9]
The 1933 Palestine riots (Hebrew: מאורעות תרצ"ד, Me'oraot Tartsad) were a series of violent riots in Mandatory Palestine, as part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine. The riots erupted on 13 October 1933 when the police broke up a banned demonstration organized by the Arab Executive Committee. [ 1 ]
In 1918, Weizmann toured Palestine as head of the Zionist Commission and met with Arab and Palestinian–Arab leaders, including the future mufti al-Husseini. He preferred to negotiate a political solution primarily with the British, and sometimes with non-Palestinian Arabs, but he opposed negotiating with the Palestinians themselves. [ 60 ]
Arab dissent was influenced by the Qassamite rebellion following the killing of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam by the Palestine Police Force in 1935, as well as the declaration by Mohammad Amin al-Husayni of 16 May 1930 as 'Palestine Day' and calling for a general strike on this day, following the 1929 Palestine riots.