At least 182 killed across Lebanon in large wave of Israeli strikes
BBC →The latest escalation in the decades-long conflict between Hezbollah and Israel erupted when the group fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening stages of the war
50 Killed In Clashes In Palestine
Haifa, Palestine, July 26.—(INS)—Five persons were killed today in the Holy Land's Arab-Jewish racial warfare, which took 15 lives in Haifa yesterday. Greater loss of life was averted when police found in the crowded Arab vegetable market of old Jerusalem a heavily charged bomb just 15 minutes before it was set to explode. Police expressed the belief the bomb was similar to the one which exploded in the Haifa market yesterday. Three members of a terrorist band were slain in a battle with special constables, whom they had attacked. A Jewish father and his 14-year-old son were killed when they were ambushed near a Jewish settlement on the banks of the Jordan river. Casualties were placed at 15 dead and 107 wounded. Sixty-one of the victims were Arabs and four were Jews. The Associated Press correspond (CONTINUED on Page Five)
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1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
Resumed revolt (September 1937 – August 1939)
With the failure of the Peel Commission's proposals the revolt resumed during the autumn of 1937 marked by the assassination on 26 September of Acting District Commissioner of the Galilee Lewis Andrews by Quassemite gunmen in Nazareth. On 30 September, regulations were issued allowing the Government to detain political deportees in any part of the British Empire, and authorising the High Commissioner to outlaw associations whose objectives he regarded as contrary to public order.
Wikipedia →Woodhead Commission – Conclusions
The commission report was published on 9 November 1938, concluded that no plan of partition could be evolved within the terms of reference which would, in the view of the members of the Commission, offer much hope of success, for eventual establishment of self-supporting Arab and Jewish states. The British government issued a policy statement that 'the political, administrative and financial difficulties involved in the proposal to create independent Arab and Jewish States inside Palestine are so great that this solution of the problem is impracticable.'
Wikipedia →White Paper of 1939 – Parliamentary Approval
On 22 May 1939, the House of Commons debated a motion that the White Paper was inconsistent with the terms of the Mandate, but it was defeated by 268 votes to 179. During the debate, Lloyd George called the White Paper an 'act of perfidy', and Winston Churchill voted against his party although it was in the government. The Liberal MP James Rothschild stated that 'for the majority of the Jews who go to Palestine it is a question of migration or of physical extinction'.
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