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An Israeli mortar team outside Safsaf, October 1948 Israeli soldiers attack Sasa during Operation Hiram, October 1948 On 22 October, the third truce went into effect. [ 205 ] Irregular Arab forces refused to recognise the truce, and continued to harass Israeli forces and settlements in the north.
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
Failed Egyptian army and Muslim Brotherhood attacks on Kfar Darom: Battle of Nirim — May 15, 1948 Failed Egyptian attack on Nirim: Battle of Yad Mordechai — May 19–24, 1948 Egyptian failure to capture Yad Mordechai, evacuation by besieged Israelis First Battle of Negba — June 2, 1948 Failed Egyptian attack on Negba: Operation Pleshet ...
On May 18, 1948, the Royal Egyptian Air Force bombed the Old Tel Aviv central bus station four days after Israel declared independence, killing 42 people. The attack occurred during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War amid a bombing campaign by Egyptian forces in Tel Aviv that killed 150 people in total. [1]
Eugene Rogan & Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine — Rewriting the history of 1948, Cambridge University Press, 2001. David Tal, War in Palestine, 1948. Strategy and Diplomacy, Routledge, 2004. Williamson, Bruce. "Caught in the Middle: Air Combat Between Israel and the RAF, 1948". Air Enthusiast 115, January–February 2005, pp. 2–10 ISSN ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
Israel killed 11 Palestinians in a missile strike on a van carrying Palestinian militants and rockets driving through a densely civilian populated area in Gaza. [105] Nine among those killed are civilian bystanders. June 25 After crossing the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, Palestinian militants attacked an Israeli army post.
The third and final stage of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War started on October 15, 1948, when Israel launched Operation Yoav on the southern front. [1] While the Israelis made significant tactical and strategic gains in Operation Yoav, the political situation changed little and Egypt was still dragging its feet on proposed armistice talks. [2]