Editing Israeli–Palestinian conflict (section)

=== 1940–1947 ===
[[File:Hagana Ship - Jewish State at Haifa Port (1947).jpg|thumb|[[Haganah]] ship ''Jewish State'' carrying illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe at the [[Port of Haifa|Haifa Port]], [[Mandatory Palestine]], 1947]]
The renewed violence, which continued sporadically until the beginning of World War II, ended with around 5,000 casualties on the Arab side and 700 combined on the British and Jewish side total.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Banality of Brutality: British Armed Forces and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39 |last=Hughes |first=Matthew |journal=[[English Historical Review]] |year=2009a |volume=CXXIV |issue=507 |pages=314–354 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cep002 |url=http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221163210/http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 February 2016|issn=0013-8266}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Survey of Palestine |date=1946 |publisher=Government of Palestine |location=Jerusalem |pages=38–49 |url=https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/a_su/A%20SURVEY%20OF%20PALESTINE%20DEC%201945-JAN%201946%20VOL%20I.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2021 |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513011219/https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/a_su/A%20SURVEY%20OF%20PALESTINE%20DEC%201945-JAN%201946%20VOL%20I.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Levenberg |first=Haim |year=1993 |title=Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine: 1945–1948 |location=London |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-7146-3439-5}}</ref> With the eruption of [[World War II]], the situation in Mandatory Palestine calmed down. It allowed a shift towards a more moderate stance among Palestinian Arabs under the leadership of the Nashashibi clan and even the establishment of the Jewish–Arab [[Palestine Regiment]] under British command, fighting Germans in North Africa. The more radical exiled faction of al-Husseini, however, tended to cooperate with Nazi Germany, and participated in the establishment of a pro-Nazi propaganda machine throughout the Arab world. The [[Anglo-Iraqi War|defeat of Arab nationalists in Iraq]] and subsequent relocation of al-Husseini to Nazi-occupied Europe tied his hands regarding field operations in Palestine, though he regularly demanded that the Italians and the Germans [[Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II|bomb Tel Aviv]].<ref name="SelaConflict" /> The [[Jewish Agency for Israel|Jewish Agency for Palestine]] and [[National Defense Party (Mandatory Palestine)|Palestinian National Defense Party]] called on Palestine's Jewish and Arab youth to volunteer for the British Army. 30,000 Palestinian Jews and 12,000 Palestinian Arabs enlisted in the British armed forces during the war, while a [[Jewish Brigade]] was created in 1944.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Ashley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm62089366 |title=The British Empire and the Second World War |date=2006 |publisher=Hambledon Continuum |isbn=978-1-85285-417-1 |location=London; New York |oclc=ocm62089366}}</ref>

By the end of World War II, a crisis over the fate of [[Holocaust survivors]] from Europe led to renewed tensions between the [[Yishuv]] and Mandate authorities. By 1944, Jewish groups began to conduct military-style operations against the British, with the aim of persuading Great Britain to accept the formation of a Jewish state. This culminated in the [[Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine]]. This sustained Zionist paramilitary campaign of resistance against British authorities, along with the increased illegal immigration of Jewish refugees and 1947 United Nations partition, led to eventual withdrawal of the British from Palestine.<ref>Charters, David A. ''The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945–47''. Springer, 1989, p. X</ref>