In July 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war, the Palestinian towns of Lydda and Ramle were captured by the Israel Defense Forces and their residents were violently expelled. The expulsions occurred as
An Israeli soldier with detained Palestinians in Ramle
Lydda in 1920 with St. George's Church in the background
The city of Lydda in 1932
King Abdullah of Jordan (1882–1951) with John Bagot Glubb (1897–1986), the commander of the Arab Legion
Operation Dani
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Operation Dani, also spelled Danny, was an Israeli military offensive launched on July 9–19, 1948 at the end of the first truce of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The objectives were to capture territory e
Soldiers of the Yiftach Brigade with a captured Jordanian armored vehicle in the village of al-Burj, 15 July 1948
Road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Yitzhak Sadeh (left) and Yigal Allon (1948)
8th Armoured Brigade capture Lydda Airport (1948)