January 1996
·
4 Reads
On the night of 14–15 May two Arab Legion brigades entered Palestine via the Allenby and Damya bridges. Within forty-eight hours their 5000 soldiers were deployed between Nablus and Hebron. Together with Iraqi units, they occupied most of the territories allocated by the UN to the Arab state, that is, excepting the Galilee, the southern coastal plain and the north-west Negev. Advancing more or less in accordance with the revised Arab invasion plan, these forces met no apparent resistance as those areas were practically devoid of Jews.