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The 84th "Givati" Brigade (Hebrew: חֲטִיבַת גִּבְעָתִי, lit. '"Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade"') is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade formed in 1947. During the 1948 war , it was involved in capturing Palestinian villages in operations Hametz , Barak , and Pleshet .
Tell es-Safi (Arabic: تل الصافي, romanized: Tall aṣ-Ṣāfī, "White hill"; Hebrew: תל צפית, Tel Tzafit) was an Arab Palestinian village, located on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers (22 mi) northwest of Hebron, It had its Arab population expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on orders of Shimon Avidan, commander of the Givati Brigade.
The Givati Brigade claimed that only 30 Arabs had been killed, while the Arabs claimed that more than 70 had been killed. [3] Arab authorities in Ramle called for Red Cross intervention and informed it that "the Jews had committed barbaric acts" in Abu Shusha. A Haganah soldier made two attempts to rape a 20-year old female prisoner. [3]
The Givati Brigade's forces would deploy from Jaladiyya, the Yiftach Brigade's—from Gat, and the Negev Brigade's—from Bror Hayil. [6] Givati's 53rd Battalion would capture Iraq al-Manshiyya, and Yiftach's forces, under the umbrella command of its 1st Battalion, would take Fallujah. They would meet to the south of the villages with Negev's ...
Three Israeli soldiers of the Givati Brigade's Shaked Battalion were killed and 12 others were injured in a Hamas attack in Jabalia, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 386. [128] An Israeli air strike on a building in northern Gaza sheltering a displaced family from Beit Lahia and Jabalia killed 22 people including children, women and ...
The Givati Brigade (on the west side) and Harel Brigade (on the east side) were engaged in fighting, notably in the Latrun area. [11] [13] Between 9–11 May, a battalion of the Harel brigade attacked and took the village of Bayt Mahsir, used by Palestinians as a base for the control of Bab al-Wad. The "Sha'ar HaGai" battalion of the Harel ...
The Iraq Suwaydan bombardment, 9 November 1948. Negev brigade. The Israeli forces consisted of three infantry brigades, the Negev Brigade, the Givati Brigade under the command of Abraham "Kiki" Elkin, and the Yiftach Brigade, an armored battalion from the 8th Armored Brigade and the largest artillery formation that had been available to the IDF at the time.
The Givati Brigade culture officer, Abba Kovner, renamed the structure to Fort Yoav (Hebrew: מְצוּדַת יוֹאָב), after Yitzhak "Yoav" Dubno, who was killed in action in Negba on 21 May 1948. The fort became an Israeli military base [12] and the Givati Museum was opened there in the 1980s.