15 April - The Anabta shooting, where remnants of a Qassamite band stopped a convoy on the road from Nablus to Tulkarm near Jaffa, robbed its passengers and, stating that they were acting to revenge the death of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, shot 3 Jewish passengers, two fatally, after ascertaining their identity.[2]
16 April - two Arab workers sleeping in a hut in a banana plantation beside the highway between Petah Tikva and Yarkona were assassinated in retaliation by members of the Haganah-Bet.[3]
19 April - Twenty Jews are killed in riots following the funeral of two Jews murdered on 15 April in Jaffa[4] and calls for a general strike begin in Nablus, marking the beginning of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration.[5]
21 April - The leaders of the five main parties accept the decision at Nablus and call for a general strike of all Arabs engaged in labour, transport and shopkeeping.[6]
23 April - With the commencement of the Arab revolt, the British authorities evacuate the Jewish community of Hebron as a precautionary measure to secure its members' safety, thus ending the Jewish presence of Hebron.
18 May - Announcement of the Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed to investigate the causes of unrest in British Mandatory Palestine.[7]
02 June - An attempt by rebels to derail a train bringing the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from Egypt led to the railways being put under guard, placing a great strain on the security forces at Nablus.
04 June - In response to the situation two days prior in Nablus, the government rounds up a large number of Palestinian leaders and sends them to a detention camp at Auja al-Hafir in the Negev desert.
21 June - The Battle of Nur Shams marks an escalation with the largest engagement of British troops against Arab militants so far in the revolt.[8]
22 August - Anglo-Jewish Arabist scholar Levi Billig of Hebrew University is murdered at his home outside Jerusalem by an Arab assassin.[9][10]
07 September - Statement of Policy issued by the Colonial Office in London declares the situation a "direct challenge to the authority of the British Government in Palestine" and announces the appointment of Lieutenant-General John Dill as supreme military commander.
11 October - The general strike is called off, marking the beginning of a break in hostilities which ensues for about a year while the Peel Commission deliberates.
11 November - Peel Commission officially arrives in British Mandatory Palestine.
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