Battle of Anabta

Battle of Anabta
Part of 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
Date 21 June 1936 Location Anabta, Mandatory Palestine Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	Palestinian Arabs
Commanders and leaders
John Evetts Henry Sills †	Ibrahim Nassar Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj
Units involved
British Army	Local rebels (Fasa'il)
Strength
450 British soldiers 4 British aircraft[1]	60–70 Arab fighters
Casualties and losses
2 killed and 3 wounded	10 killed and 4 wounded

The battle of Anabta occurred on June 21, 1936, when Palestinian Arab militants attacked a convoy of civilian buses escorted by British soldiers in Mandatory Palestine, near Anabta. Two British soldiers were killed, along with 10 or 11 Arabs in what the New York Herald Tribune termed a "major fight" in the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine and The Baltimore Sun described as the "heaviest engagement" of the revolt at that point.