It was during the British mandate period that politicisation of the Wailing Wall occurred . The disturbances at the Wailing wall in 1928 were repeated in 1929 , however the violence in the riots that followed , that left 116 Palestinian Arabs , 133 Jews dead and 339 wounded , were surprising in their intensity and was the first instance that indigenous Sephardi and Mizrahi had been killed
riots that followed
1929 Palestine riots
Palestinian nationalism