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The troops from the 91st Division were also deployed to the village and around 20 militants were killed in the battle. [ 14 ] On 8 October, the village was reported to have been under Israeli control as the IDF began its second phase of operations in southern Lebanon.
91st Division logo, at Biranit entrance.. The Israel Defense Forces 91st Division (Hebrew: אוגדה 91), known also as the Galilee Formation (Hebrew: עֻצְבַּת הַגָּלִיל, Utzbat HaGalil), is a territorial division in the IDF Northern Command, responsible for the front with Lebanon, from Rosh HaNikra to Mount Hermon.
[60] After the war a committee, headed by Col. (res) Yoram Yair, sharply criticized the conduct of 91st Division during the war, including the battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b. The battle was called "the black hole of the war".
The 8th Armored Brigade (Hebrew: חטיבה שמונה, Hativa Shmoneh) is an Israeli Defense Forces reserve armored brigade assigned to the 91st Division.It was the Israel Defense Forces' first armoured brigade which possessed tanks, jeeps and armoured personnel carriers (APCs), whereas all other IDF units at the time were entirely infantry-based.
Unit 300 was formed in the early summer of 1948 by incorporating Druze defectors from the Arab Liberation Army and small numbers of Bedouins and Circassians. [1] The light infantry battalion was attached to the Oded Brigade and took part in Israel's Operation Hiram in October 1948; it fought in every major Arab–Israeli war since.
Drug smugglers commonly attempt to transport illegal substances through Israel's southern border with Egypt between the Sinai and Negev Desert.Hundreds of attempted border crossings occur each year, and Israel has placed a significant police and military presence at the border to combat a growing number of trafficking attempts. 2022 saw a record low $85 million of drugs smuggled into Israel.
It is located on the land of the Palestinian village of Al-Mansura, which was forcibly depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. [2] 91st Division logo, at Biranit entrance. Biranit was planned as the hub of a group of settlements established by the Central Galilee Development Project in the 1960s. [1]
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, around 40–200 Palestinian Arab villagers from Tantura were killed in a massacre perpetrated by the Alexandroni Brigade, which at the time was one of six field forces of the Haganah. [2]