Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
Part of precursor to Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the decolonisation of Asia
Arab insurgents during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine
Date 1 March 1920 – 14 May 1948 (28 years, 2 months, 1 week and 6 days) Location Mandatory Palestine
Belligerents
Jewish National Council (Yishuv) Haganah FOSH Peulot Meyuhadot Irgun (1931-48) Lehi (1940-48)	Arab Higher Committee (Palestinian Arabs): Fasa'il (1936-39) Army of the Holy War (1947-48) Arab Liberation Army (1947-48) Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (1937-39) Jihadist groups: Black Hand (1929-1935)	United Kingdom British Army Palestine Police Force Jewish Settlement Police Jewish Supernumerary Police Special Night Squads

During the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, there was civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish Yishuv, beginning from the violent spillover of the Franco-Syrian War in 1920 and until the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The conflict shifted from sectarian clashes in the 1920s and early 1930s to an armed Arab Rebellion against British rule in 1936, armed Jewish Revolt primarily against the British in mid-1940s and finally open war in November 1947 between Arabs and Jews.