"Great Arab Revolt" against British occupation of Palestine

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On 4th of the Islamic month of Jamadi as-Sani, in 1936 AD, the 3-year long "Great Arab Revolt" against British occupation of Palestine and the illegal migration of European Jews to this Muslim land, started, five months after the martyrdom of the famous combatant, Ezz ed-Din Qassam. His death at the hands of the British generated widespread outrage huge crowds accompanied Qassam's body to his grave in Haifa.
The revolt consisted of two distinct phases. The first phase was directed primarily by the urban and elitist Higher Arab Committee (HAC) and was focused mainly on strikes and other forms of political protest.
The uprising was brutally suppressed by the British Army and their armed Zionist agents, who killed more than 2,000 Palestinians. However, the figure is far higher as recently disclosed by the Walid Khalidi estimates which put the number of casualties for the Arabs at 19,792, with 5,032 dead. Of these 3,832 Palestinians were directly killed by the British while the remaining 1,200 dead were killed by armed Zionist terrorist gangs.
In addition, over 14,760 Palestinian men, women and children were wounded. In other words, over ten percent of the adult male Palestinian Arab population between the ages of 20 and 60 years was killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled.