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A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, later known as the Great Revolt, [a] [10] the Great Palestinian Revolt, [b] [11] or the Palestinian Revolution, [c] lasted from 1936 until 1939.
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.
[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 ...
The younger generation also formed the backbone of the organisation of the six-month general strike of 1936, which marked the start of the great Palestinian Revolt. [32] According to Khalidi this was a grass-roots uprising, which was eventually adopted by the old Palestinian leadership, whose 'inept leadership helped to doom these movements as ...
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 Palestinian Liberation Organisation was founded in Cairo in 1964, dedicated to fighting for the ”liberation of Palestine” through armed revolution rather than dwelling on rights issues, a ...
The al-Bassa massacre was an incident that took place on September 6, 1938, in the Palestinian village of al-Bassa, during the Arab Revolt (1936–1939) against British rule. British forces carried out a violent attack, leading to significant casualties and the destruction of property in the village.
[6] [16] For all practical purposes, the committee ceased to exist, however, this brought little change in the structure of Arab political life [6] and the Palestinian revolt continued. With the indications of a new European war on the horizon, and in an endeavor to resolve the inter-communal issues in Palestine, the British government proposed ...