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The British worked with their Arab allies to bring a halt to the AHC riots.

The Peel Commission reported, in July 1937, that the British obligations to the Arabs and Zionists were irreconcilable and the mandate unworkable.

It suggested the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, with the British mandate governing over Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem along with a corridor from Jerusalem to the coast.

The Jews accepted the general principle of a partition while the Arabs refused any partition plan.

The British government sent a technical team called the Woodhead Commission to detail the plan.

The Woodhead Commission in the end concluded that the partition was impractical.