Also known as the Western or Wailing Wall Disturbances, these were the first large-scale occurrences of fighting among Arabs, Jews, and the British mandatory administration of Palestine. Though the deeper causes can be linked to greater tensions between increasing Jewish immigration to further the Zionist movement’s goal of a Jewish national homeland and the Palestinians’ nationalist aspirations, the fighting began over Jewish access to the Western Wall, known as Al-Buraq in Arabic or HaKotel in Hebrew. Jews believe the Western Wall to be the remnants of the Second Temple destroyed by the Roman Empire, which most historians and archaeologists concur with. For Muslims, it is at the base of the Haram Al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary), one of Islam’s holiest sites. Rumors of a Jewish plot to seize control of the holy places began to spread in the late 1920s, and violence erupted by 1929, causing extensive damage. 116 Palestinians and 133 Jews were killed in incidents reaching from Jerusalem, to Hebron, Jaffa and Safad. See: Pappe, Ilan. The Aristocracy of the Land: The Husayni Family. Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 2003 and Mattar, Philip. “Western (Wailing) Wall Disturbances.” Philip Mattar, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. New York: Facts on File, 2005. See also online: A Country Study: Israel. 1988. Library of Congress. 24 August 2011. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iltoc.html.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/1929-riots