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Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
Western Wall Train
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| Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, Israel

The 1929 Arab riots in Palestine, or the Buraq Uprising , also known as the 1929 Massacres, refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. The riots took the form, in the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews accompanied by destruction of Jewish property. During the week of riots from 23 to 29 August, 133 Jews were killed and between 198–241 others were injured, a large majority of whom were unarmed and were murdered in their homes by Arabs, while at least 116 Arabs were killed and at least 232 were injured, mostly by the British police while trying to suppress the riots, although around 20 were killed by Jewish attacks or indiscriminate British gunfire. During the riots, 17 Jewish communities were evacuated.The British-appointed Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause of the violence without which in our opinion disturbances either would not have occurred or would not have been little more than a local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and national aspirations and fear for their economic future.” It also attributed the cause as being Arab fears of Jewish immigrants not only as a menace to their livelihood but as a possible overlord of the future. Avraham Sela described the riots as unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, in duration, geographical scope and direct damage to life and property.
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