'Iraq Suwaydan (Arabic: عراق سويدان, Hebrew: עיראק סווידאן) was a Palestinian Arab village located 27 km (17 mi) northeast of Gaza City. It was captured...

bypassed it. Attacks on other positions in the corridor, including the Iraq Suwaydan police fort, were also unsuccessful. The battles, having opened a safe...

Charter in 1987. Abdul Fatah Hasan Dukhan was born in 1936 and was from Iraq Suwaydan in Mandatory Palestine. In 1948, he was forced to move to Nuseirat Camp...

military operation conducted against the Egyptian-held police fort of Iraq Suwaydan in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The battle was fought between the Israel...

to Yad Mordechai was occupied by Israeli forces. On 9 November, the Iraq Suwaydan fortress was captured and renamed the Yoav Fortress in honor of the...

town in Gaza City Iraq Suwaydan, a Palestinian Arab village in Gaza City Iraq, Ludhiana, a village in the Punjab state of India Iraq, a journal from the...

area surrounded by a number of hills, especially the police fort at Iraq Suwaydan 1.7 km to the south. The kibbutz was adjacent to a number of other strategic...

Yoav, during which he was the first soldier to break into the fort at Iraq Suwaydan. He named his son for the operation. In Gallant's youth, the family...

wing took Ibdis and the village of Iraq Suwaydan. A simultaneous attack by the Negev Brigade on the Iraq Suwaydan police fort failed. Hostilities resumed...

launched Operation Shmone to capture the Tegart fort in the village of Iraq Suwaydan. The fort's Egyptian defenders had previously repulsed eight attempts...

capturing Lod Airport, and in October, Operation Yoav, the taking of the Iraq Suwaydan fortress blocking the road to the Negev. In December 1948 he participated...

Yigal Allon, Commander of Southern Front, watches the bombardment of Iraq Suwaydan, 9 November 1948...

(near Hebron) after it was occupied, October Israeli bombardment of the Iraq Suwaydan fort, held by the Egyptian army, on 9 November Palmach soldiers are...

Shemen while under heavy enemy fire Ben-Zion Leitner Private first class Iraq Suwaydan 19 October 1948 Destroyed enemy bunkers Ron Feller Sergeant Karatiyya...

in military area on the border. Hebron police station (destroyed 2001) Iraq Suweidan police station ("Metzudat Yoav Shenkar" - Yoav Shenkar Fortress)...

He led an assault that blew up of a bunker at a police position in Iraq Suwaydan, in which half of his face became paralysed. He was a native of Odessa...

Sunayd Dimra al-Faluja Hamama Hatta Hiribya Huj Hulayqat Ibdis Iraq al-Manshiyya Iraq Suwaydan Isdud al-Jaladiyya al-Jiyya Julis al-Jura Jusayr Karatiyya...

Operation Shmone lit. Eight November 9, 1948 Israeli capture of the Iraq Suwaydan police fort Operation Lot Named for the Biblical character Lot November...

Al-Majdal, Askalan, Bayt 'Affa, Najd, Ni'ilya, Bayt Jirja, Hiribya, Qatra, Iraq Suwaydan, Kawkaba, Beit Jimal Monastery, Al-Batani al-Sharqi, Al-Qubayba, Al-Faluja...

enemy fire Ben-Zion Leitner Private First Class War of Independence Iraq Suwaydan 19 Oct 1948 Received the medal for destroying enemy bunkers during the...

35°25′42″E / 32.93167°N 35.42833°E / 32.93167; 35.42833 Parod, Shefer Iraq Suwaydan Gaza 9 November 1948 766 7,529 Yoav No trace 31°38′55″N 34°41′19″E...

Palestinian villages of Bayt 'Affa and Iraq Suwaydan, which were depopulated in 1948. It is on the land of Iraq Suwaydan. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central...

Operation Shmone, successfully capturing the Egyptian-held police fort of Iraq Suwaydan. Mohammad Sa'ed became Prime Minister of Iran. Born: Luiz Felipe Scolari...

Battalion to the Ad Halom bridge, the 2nd to Isdud itself, and the 1st to Iraq Suwaydan and Faluja. Heavy machine gun and armored units were dispersed in between...

Sunayd Dimra al-Faluja Hamama Hatta Hiribya Huj Hulayqat Ibdis Iraq al-Manshiyya Iraq Suwaydan Isdud al-Jaladiyya al-Jiyya Julis al-Jura Jusayr Karatiyya...

PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Bayt 'Affa as resembling Iraq Suwaydan, that is a moderate-sized adobe village situated on a plain. In addition...

the Samson's Foxes unit, and was injured on the Egyptian front, near Iraq Suwaydan, when the jeep he was driving was bombarded. Bendori was hospitalized...

on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Iraq Suwaydan. The name, which means "intensity", refers to the intensity of the battles...

89th Battalion. In November 1948, he participated in the Battle of Iraq Suwaydan, in which he continued to treat the wounded and respond to the shooting...

It was founded on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Iraq Suwaydan. After drilling in the 1950s in the hopes of finding oil, the boreholes...