1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
1936–39 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine |
Part of Intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine
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British soldiers on an armoured train car with two Palestinian Arab prisoners |
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Belligerents |
United Kingdom British Army Palestine Police Force Jewish Settlement Police Jewish Supernumerary Police Special Night Squads
Jewish National Council Yishuv
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Arab Higher Committee (1936–October 1937)
- Local rebel factions (fasa'il)
- Volunteers from Arab world
Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (October 1937–1939)
- Bureau of the Arab Revolt in Palestine (late 1938–1939)
Society for the Defense of Palestine
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Commanders and leaders |
General Arthur Grenfell Wauchope High Commissioner and Commander-in-chief
(1932–38) Sir Harold MacMichael
High Commissioner
(1938–44) Lt.-General John Dill GOC (1936–37) Lt.-General Archibald Wavell
GOC (1937–38) Lt.-General Robert Haining
GOC (1938–39) Major-General Bernard Montgomery
Commander, 8th Infantry Div., 1938–39 Air Commodore Roderic Hill AOC, Palestine and Transjordan
(1936–38) Air Commodore Arthur Harris
AOC, Palestine and Transjordan
(1938–39) Admiral Dudley Pound
Commander-in-Chief, British Mediterranean Fleet
(1936–39)
Eliyahu Golomb Haganah Commander
Raghib al-Nashashibi (from 1937)
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Political leadership Mohammed Amin al-Husayni (exiled) Raghib al-Nashashibi (defected) Izzat Darwaza (exiled)
Local rebel commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad (General Commander) † Arif Abd al-Raziq Regional Commander) (exiled) Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir (Regional Commander) Yusuf Abu Durra Regional Commander) Fakhri 'Abd al-Hadi (defected) Abdallah al-Asbah † Issa Battat † Mohammed Saleh al-Hamad † Yusuf Hamdan † Ahmad Mohamad Hasan † Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (exiled) Wasif Kamal Abdul Khallik † Hamid Suleiman Mardawi † Ibrahim Nassar Mustafa Osta † Mohammad Mahmoud Rana'an Farhan al-Sa'di Hasan Salama
Arab volunteer commanders: Fawzi al-Qawuqji (expelled) Sa'id al-'As †
Muhammad al-Ashmar
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Strength |
25,000 to 50,000 British soldiers
20,000 Jewish policemen, supernumeraries and settlement guards
15,000 Haganah fighters
2,883 Palestine Police Force, all ranks (1936)
2,000 Irgun militants |
1,000 – 3,000 in 1936–37
between 2,500 and 7,500 in 1938
(plus an additional 6,000 to 15,000 part-timers) |
Casualties and losses |
British Security Forces:
262 killed
c. 550 wounded Jews:
c. 300 killed
4 executed |
Arabs:
c. 5,000 killed
c. 15,000 wounded
108 executed
12,622 detained
5 exiled |
United Kingdom
British Army
Palestine Police Force
Jewish Settlement Police
Jewish Supernumerary Police
Special Night Squads
Jewish National Council Yishuv
Arab Higher Committee (1936–October 1937)
Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (October 1937–1939)
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