1916

1916: With assurances from the British government for an independent Arab state, Sharif Hussein announces his rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in June. However, in May – one month earlier – a secret meeting had already taken place between Britain and France known as the “Sykes-Picot Agreement”, which decided how the territories belonging to the Ottomans would be divided after the war. Palestine was among the territories to be divided and would later come under the British Mandate.