The British used 25,000 soldiers to combat this uprising and inflicted severe reprisals: under emergency regulations, 2,000 homes were destroyed and several thousand Palestinians were incarcerated in concentration camps. As Rogan notes: The use of overwhelming force and collective punishments by the British degenerated into abuses and atrocities that would forever stain the mandate in the memory of the Palestinians. … Some 5000 Palestinians were killed and 10,000 were wounded – in all, 10 percent of the adult male population was killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled.
