Arab uprising against British Mandate (apr 15, 1936 – aug 1, 1939)

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The Arabs were angry that under the British Mandate:
- there was mass Jewish immigration, encouraged by the Jewish Agency which had been set up to encourage Jewish immigration to Palestine (by 1939, Jews made up 1/3 of the population)
- Palestine was being used as a Jewish homeland
- the Haganah had been set up to protect Jewish settlements
- Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organisation, had been set up (because some Jews felt the British weren't protecting them enough)

and launched a revolt. The British and the Jewish Haganah worked together to crush the revolt, which angered the Arabs further as it looked like the British and the Jews were blatantly allying against the Palestinians.

By the end of the revolt, 10% of the Palestinian adult male population had been killed, wounded or exiled.

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