1948 Arab–Israeli War |
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Part of the 1947–1949 Palestine war |
 Captain Avraham "Bren" Adan raising the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash (a site now in Eilat), marking the end of the war |
Date | 15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949 (9 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) |
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Location | Former British Mandate of Palestine, Sinai Peninsula, southern Lebanon |
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Result | - Israeli victory
- Jordanian partial victory
- Palestinian Arab defeat
- Egyptian defeat
- Arab League strategic failure
- 1949 Armistice Agreements
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Territorial changes | Israel keeps the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captures ≈60% of the area allotted to Arab state; Jordanian rule of the West Bank, Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip |
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Belligerents |
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Israel
Before 26 May 1948:
Yishuv Paramilitary groups: Haganah
- Palmach
Hish Him
Irgun Lehi- Allied Bedouin tribes
After 26 May 1948:
Israel Defense Forces Minorities Unit Foreign volunteers: Mahal | Arab League:
Egypt All-Palestine Protectorate(after 22 September 1948) Holy War Army(after 22 September 1948)
Transjordan Iraq Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Yemen
Irregulars:
Arab Liberation Army
Holy War Army |
Commanders and leaders |
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David Ben-Gurion
Yisrael Galili
Yaakov Dori
Yigael Yadin
Mickey Marcus †
Yigal Allon
Yitzhak Rabin
David Shaltiel
Moshe Dayan
Shimon Avidan
Moshe Carmel
Yitzhak Sadeh | Azzam Pasha
King Farouk I
Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi
Muhammad Naguib
King Abdallah I
John Bagot Glubb
Habis Majali
Muzahim al-Pachachi
Husni al-Za'im
Haj Amin al-Husseini
Hasan Salama †
Fawzi al-Qawuqji |
Strength |
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Israel: 29,677 (initially) 117,500 (finally) | Egypt: 10,000 initially, rising to 20,000[citation needed] Transjordan: 7,500–10,000 Iraq: 2,000 initially, rising to 15,000–18,000[citation needed] Syria: 2,500[citation needed]–5,000 Lebanon: 436 Saudi Arabia: 800–1,200(Egyptian command) Yemen: 300[citation needed] Arab Liberation Army: 3,500–6,000. Total: 13,000 (initial) 51,100 (minimum) 63,500 (maximum) |
Casualties and losses |
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6,373 killed (about 4,000 fighters and 2,400 civilians) | Arab armies: 3,700–7,000 killed Palestinian Arabs: 3,000–13,000 killed (both fighters and civilians) |