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ثورة البراق
Exact day23 August 1929
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.In August 1929 a dispute over al-Buraq, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, broke into violence that spread across Palestine from 23 August. The United Nations study records 220 dead and 520 injured on both sides.
The United Nations study records that Palestinian resentment broke out into violence in August 1929, sparked by a dispute over the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and that the clashes between Palestinians and Jews left 220 dead and 520 injured on both sides; British reinforcements, including aircraft, naval vessels and armoured cars, were called in from outside Palestine. The British commission of inquiry dated the outbreak in Jerusalem to 23 August, and found that it spread to most outlying centres of population and to some rural districts.12
Link to this chapterThe Shaw Commission described the outbreak as an attack by Arabs on Jews, not premeditated. The United Nations study quotes its finding that the Arab people of Palestine were united in their demand for representative government, and that their resentment at the continued failure to obtain any measure of self-government was a contributory cause.345
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Evidence
United Nations · section: Chapter VI, The revolt of 1929
Original-language quotation · enThe clashes between Palestinians and Jews left 220 dead and 520 injured on both sidesLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Summary of conclusions, 2
Original-language quotation · enspread from the capital through a period of days to most outlying centres of population and to some rural districtsLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Summary of conclusions, 1
Original-language quotation · enThe outbreak in Jerusalem on the 23rd of August was from the beginning an attack by Arabs on JewsLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Summary of conclusions, 2
Original-language quotation · enThe outbreak was not premeditated.Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter VI, The revolt of 1929, quoting the Shaw Commission
Original-language quotation · enThe Arab people of Palestine are today united in their demand for representative government.Link to this citationdocument · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The summary of findings and recommendations of the Shaw Commission, in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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document · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (ST/SG/SER.F/1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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