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Balfour Declaration
In 1917, Palestine was conquered by the British forces . The British government issued the Balfour Declaration, which stated that the government viewed favorably "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" but "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". -
Heborn Massacre
In 1929, after a demonstration by Vladimir Jabotinsky's political group Betar at the Western Wall, riots started in Jerusalem and expanded throughout Mandatory Palestine; Arabs murdered 67 Jews in the city of Hebron, in what became known as the Hebron massacare. -
Black Hand
In the 1930s Izz ad Din al Qassam arrived from Syria and established the Black Hand, a anti zionist and anti british organization. He made military training for peasants and by 1935 he had enlisted between 200 and 800 men. The cells were equipped with bombs and firearms, which they used to kill Jewish settlers in the area. By 1936, escalating tensions led to the 1936 Arab revolt. -
Population
In 1931 17 percent of the population of Mandatory Palestine were Jews, an increase of six percent since 1922. Jewish immigration went up right after the Nazis came to power, causing the Jewish people in British Palestine to double. -
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War
May 14, 1948, the day on which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation which declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel.That day, the armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq invaded/intervened in what had just ceased to be the British Mandate, marking the beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
