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✦ History

Operation Pleshet

May 29 – June 3, 1948 · Operation Pleshet

Result Egyptian tactical victory

Israeli attacks halted the Egyptian advance up the coast at the Ad Halom bridge near Isdud.

On the map Contemporaries

Israel

Arab states

Israel

Egypt

Saudi Arabia

Kingdom of Egypt

Lou Lenart military commander

Shimon Avidan military commander

Mohamed Naguib military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 1,150
Wounded: 50
Captured: 5
Aircraft: 6

Strength: 2,300
Killed: 7–15
Wounded: 18–30

Units

Egyptian expeditionary force (1948)