In April 1938, during the Arab revolt in Palestine, a group of Palestinian Arab rebels planted a mine on the road near Kafr Yasif which blew up a British vehicle, killing nine soldiers (according to the Arabs) or one soldier and wounding two others (according to the British). The British Army proceeded to start setting Kafr Yasif ablaze in retaliation, but were then informed by local residents that Kuwaykat's inhabitants were responsible for the attack. The British troops fatally shot nine Arabs as they approached the village. Between 14–17 February 1939, the British Army set between 68 and 72 homes ablaze in Kafr Yasif in response to another mine attack on British soldiers driving on a newly constructed security road which resulted in the death of one soldier and the wounding of two others. It was later discovered by the British authorities that the attackers were not from Kafr Yasif. In compensation, the town was rebuilt by the British with a school and a city hall which are still in use today. According to a British chaplain, "The people at Kafr Yasif were very eager to point out that the troops who destroyed their houses were not English but Irish."