Casualties
During the week of riots from 23 to 29 August 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed and 198 Jews and 232 Arabs were injured.
More than 60 Jews were killed at Hebron, and the British police had to open fire to prevent outrages in Nablus and Jaffa. A police officer succeeded in warding off an attack on the quarter between Jaffa and Tel Aviv by firing on an Arab crowd. Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Safad, killing or wounding 45 persons. Many of the 116 reported Arab deaths were as a result of police and military activities.
According to the Shaw Report, during the week of riots from 23 to 29 August 116 Arabs and 133 Jews were killed and 232 Arabs and 198 Jews were injured and treated in hospital. The Jewish casualty figures were provided by the Jewish authorities. The Arab casualty figures represented only those actually admitted to hospital and did not include "a considerable number of unrecorded casualties from rifle fire that occurred amongst Arabs". The Shaw report found that, "many of the Arab casualties and possibly some of the Jewish casualties were caused by rifle fire by the police or military forces". Arab notables accused the Government forces of firing at Arabs exclusively.
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