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The 1948 Palestine war [a] ... Its objective was to encircle the Egyptian Army in the Gaza Strip and force the Egyptians to end the war.
May 3–4, 1948 Part of Operation Yiftach; opening up Tiberias–Metula road Battle of Safed — May 6–12, 1948 Part of Operation Yiftach; capture of Safed by Palmach forces Operation Maccabi [7] lit. Maccabee: May 8, 1948 Haganah opening up the corridor to Jerusalem. Operation Gideon [8] May 11, 1948 Haganah capture of Beit She'an and ...
In his book, The Arab–Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Karsh wrote that the Arab Higher Committee played a key part in the exoduses from Haifa, Tiberias, and Jaffa. [107] [better source needed] A 3 May 1948 Time magazine article attributed the exodus from the city of Haifa to fear, Arab orders to leave and a Jewish assault. [159]
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war.It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine.
In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes, at first by Zionist paramilitaries, [a] and after the establishment of Israel, by its military.
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 ...
Operation Hametz (Hebrew: מבצע חמץ, Mivtza Hametz) was a Zionist operation towards the end of Mandatory Palestine, as part of the 1948 Palestine war.It was launched at the end of April 1948 with the objective of capturing villages inland from Jaffa and establishing a blockade around the town. [2]
Plan Dalet (Hebrew: תוכנית ד', Tokhnit dalet "Plan D") was a Zionist military plan executed during the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state.