 On August 14 , 1929 , after attacks on individual Jews praying at the Wall , 6 @,@ 000 Jews demonstrated in Tel Aviv , shouting " The Wall is ours . " The next day , the Jewish fast of Tisha B 'Av , 300 youths raised the Zionist flag and sang <unk> at the Wall . The day after , on August 16 , an organized mob of 2 @,@ 000 Muslim Arabs descended on the Western Wall , injuring the beadle and burning prayer books , liturgical fixtures and notes of supplication . The rioting spread to the Jewish commercial area of town , and was followed a few days later by the Hebron massacre . 133 Jews were killed and 339 injured in the Arab riots , and in the subsequent process of quelling the riots 110 Arabs were killed by British police . This was by far the deadliest attack on Jews during the period of British Rule over Palestine . 
