Editing Jenin (section)

===British Mandate period===
[[File:British bombing of Jenin, 1938.jpg|thumb|right|View of the rubble in Jenin after a quarter of the town was dynamited by British forces in 1938, as a retaliatory attack after a British official was assassinated]]

According to a [[1922 census of Palestine|census]] conducted in 1922 by the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], Jenin had a population of 2,637 (2,307 Muslims, 212 Hindus, 108 Christians, seven Jews, and three Sikhs).<ref name=census1922/> A following [[1931 census of Palestine|census in 1931]] showed a slight increase to 2,706 (2,610 Muslims, 103 Christians, two Jews, and one [[Druze]]) with another 68 in nearby suburbs (all Muslims).<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/palestine-census-1931 |title=Palestine Census 1931}}</ref> From 1936, Jenin became a center of rebellion against the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandatory]] authorities. By the summer of 1938, residents of the city embarked on "an intensified campaign of murder, intimidation and sabotage" that caused the British administration "grave concern", according to a British report to the [[League of Nations]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historytoday.com/gordon-corera/british-jenin|title=The British in Jenin|first=Gordon  |last=Corera |author-link=Gordon Corera|access-date=14 April 2016}}</ref> the population had further increased to 3,100.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VillageStatistics1938orig.pdf |title=Village Statistics |year=1938 |pages=28}}</ref> The city played an important role in the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine]], prompted by the death of [[Izz ad-Din al-Qassam]] in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of [[Ya'bad]] months prior to the start of the revolt. On 25 August 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town. Despite having captured and killed the assassin, British forces ordered the inhabitants to leave, and blew up one quarter of the town as a form of punishment.<ref>"The British in Jenin", ''History Today'', July 2002, [[Gordon Corera]], pp. 2-4.</ref>

Jenin was used by [[Fawzi al-Qawuqji]]'s [[Arab Liberation Army]] as a base.

The [[Village Statistics, 1945|village statistics of 1945]] list the population as 3,990 (3,840 Muslims and 150 Christians).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VillageStatistics1945orig.pdf |title=Village Statistics |year=1945 |pages=16}}</ref>