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The neighboring Arabs who witnessed the incident, took this opportunity to attack Jewish shops and homes. They were joined by armed Arab policemen. The pogroms continued until May 7 and spread as far as Petah Tikva, Kfar Saba, Rehovot and other Jewish communities. Fatalities: 47 Jews, 48 Arabs. Wounded: 146 Jews, 73 Arabs.
After British Mandate administration headed by high commissioner Herbert Samuel made some arrests, on the advice of head of al-Husseini clan, Musa Khazim Pasha al-Husseini, former mayor of Jerusalem, Jewish immigration was suspended.
The Britain's policy regarding promise to establish Jewish National Home in Palestine (the reason behind the Mandate given them by the League of Nations) has changed by "fixing by the numbers and interests of the present population" the future Jewish immigration.
A popular contemporary comment was that Samuel had revised the Balfour declaration to mean the Jewish National Home had become the Arab National Home.
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