The estimate is around 700k people, of which a minority was Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#British_Mandate_era

The estimate is around 700k people, of which a minority was Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#British_Mandate_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti... Just because it wasn’t a dense urban area, it doesn’t mean it was “unoccupied”.