1936-1939 - Arab revolt in Palestine
- Popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against British mandate due to increasing flow of Jewish immigrants.
- Sparked by back and forth killings of two Jews by a Qassamite band, followed by the retaliatory killing of two Arab workers.
- First part of movement was seized upon by the urban and elitist Arab Higher Committee, which made the revolt focus on strikes and other political forms of protest.
- Second phase in 1937 lead to violent conflict between British Army and Palestine Police Force against the peasant-led resistance movement.
- Walid Khalidi estimates 19,792 casualties for the Arabs, with 5,032 dead, 3,832 killed by the British and 1,200 dead due to intracommunal terrorism, and 14,760 wounded. Several hundred Palestinian Jews were killed.