Editing Tulkarm (section)

===British Mandate era===
[[File:TulkarmRegion1940s.png|thumb|The region of Tulkarm in the 1940s.]]
The [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandatory administration]] (192–1947) in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] designated Tulkarm as the center of the [[Tulkarm Subdistrict]].<ref name="Fischbach494">Fischbach 2005, p. 494.</ref>

In 1920, a road was constructed to connect the town with [[Netanya]] on the coast. In order to cope with a significant increase in population and unorganized infrastructural development, a civil planning scheme was designed for Tulkarm and its satellite villages  in 1945. At the time Tulkarm was divided into four main sections, with the bulk of commercial activity concentrated along the north–south and east–west roads. Meanwhile, the town continued to expand past its northern fringes, which had previously been characterized by green spaces.<ref>Thawaba, 2009, p. 36.</ref>

Tulkarm became   a haven  for Palestinian Arab rebel activity during the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|1936–1939 Arab revolt]] against British rule in Palestine. General Commander of the Revolt [[Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad]] hailed from Dhinnaba, today  part of Tulkarm municipality, and led many operations in the region.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Mark Andrew|last1=LeVine|first2=Sonia|last2=Nimr|title=Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOhmuwKNMk4C&q=second+battle+of+bala|publisher=University of California Press|year=2012|pages=144–149|isbn=9780520262539}}</ref>

In the [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]] the population of Tulkarm consisted of 8,090; of whom 7,790 were Muslims, 280 Christian and 20 "other",<ref name=1945p22/> with a land area of 1,672 [[dunam]]s (urban) and 32,610 dunams (rural), according to an official land and population survey.<ref name=Hadawi45>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Tulkarm/Page-077.jpg 77]</ref> Of this, 2,399 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 276 plantations and irrigable land, 28,256 for [[cereal]]s,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi,  1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Tulkarm/Page-128.jpg 128]</ref> while 1,492 dunams were built-up areas.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Tulkarm/Page-178.jpg 178]</ref>