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1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine

1936–39 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine
Part of Intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine
Train hostages.jpg
British soldiers on an armoured train car with two Palestinian Arab prisoners
Date April 1936–August 1939
Location  Mandatory Palestine
Result Revolt suppressed
Belligerents

United Kingdom United Kingdom
Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Palestine Police Force
Jewish Settlement Police
Jewish Supernumerary Police
Special Night Squads


Jewish National Council Yishuv


  • NDF (from 1937)
    • Arab "peace bands"

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
Commanders and leaders

Mandatory Palestine General Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
High Commissioner and Commander-in-chief
(1932–38)
Mandatory Palestine Sir Harold MacMichael
High Commissioner
(1938–44)
Flag of the British Army.svg Lt.-General John Dill
GOC (1936–37)
Flag of the British Army.svg Lt.-General Archibald Wavell
GOC (1937–38)
Flag of the British Army.svg Lt.-General Robert Haining
GOC (1938–39)
Flag of the British Army.svg Major-General Bernard Montgomery
Commander, 8th Infantry Div., 1938–39
Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg Air Commodore Roderic Hill
AOC, Palestine and Transjordan
(1936–38)
Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg Air Commodore Arthur Harris
AOC, Palestine and Transjordan
(1938–39)
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Admiral Dudley Pound
Commander-in-Chief, British Mediterranean Fleet
(1936–39)


Eliyahu Golomb Haganah Commander


Raghib al-Nashashibi (from 1937)

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) Executed
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  Executed
Hasan Salama

Arab volunteer commanders:
Fawzi al-Qawuqji (expelled)
Sa'id al-'As 

Muhammad al-Ashmar
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 United Kingdom
Flag of the British Army.svg 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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