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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 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.
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 ...
[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 ...
His assassination was considered to represent the apex of the great Arab revolt in Palestine. Andrews's murder causes Britain to respond by outlawing the Arab Higher Committee . 1 October – Following the assassination of the British District Commissioner for the Galilee, the British authorities ban all Arab nationalist political organisations ...
In 1936, Palestinian Arabs launched a revolt that was to last three years against British colonial rule.At first the revolt consisted of a general strike but later became more violent, attacking British forces and also including attacks against Jews. [1]