Army of multinational Arab volunteers in the 1947–1949 Palestine war
Arab Liberation Army جيش الإنقاذ العربي Jayš al-ʾInqāḏ al-ʿArabiyy
Emblem of the Arab Liberation Army
Leaders
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Dates of operation
1947–1949
Headquarters
Damascus, Syria
Active regions
Mandatory Palestine
Ideology
Arab nationalism Pan-Arabism Anti-Zionism
Size
6,000
Allies
Arab League
Egypt[1]
Transjordan[1]
Iraq[1]
Syria[1]
Lebanon[a]
Saudi Arabia[3]
Yemen[4]
Holy War Army
Opponents
Before 26 May 1948:
Yishuv
Haganah
Palmach
Irgun
Lehi
After 26 May 1948 :
Israel
IDF
Battles and wars
1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
Battle for Jerusalem
Battle of Mishmar HaEmek
Battle of Ramat Yohanan
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Operation Hiram
The Arab Liberation Army (ALA; Arabic: جيش الإنقاذ العربيJaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi), also translated as Arab Salvation Army or Arab Rescue Army (ARA), was an army of volunteers from Arab countries led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji. It fought on the Arab side in the 1948 Palestine war and was set up by the Arab League as a counter to the Arab High Committee's Holy War Army, but in fact, the League and Arab governments prevented thousands from joining either force.[5]
At the meeting in Damascus on 5 February 1948 to organize Palestinian Field Commands, Northern Palestine was allocated to Qawuqji's forces although the West Bank was de facto already under the control of Transjordan.[6]
The target figure for recruitment was 10,000, but by mid-March 1948, the number of volunteers having joined the Army had reached around 6,000 and did not increase much beyond that figure. The actual number deployed might have been as low as 3,500, according to General Safwat. Its ranks included mainly Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians and a few hundreds of Iraqis, Jordanians, Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt, Circassians, and Bosniaks. There were also a few German, Turkish and British deserters.[7]
^ abcdOren 2003, p. 5.
^Morris (2008), p. 260.
^Gelber, pp. 55, 200, 239
^Morris, Benny (2008), 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, Yale University Press, p.205, New Haven, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9.
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^Caden, C.; Arielli, N. (2021). "British Army and Palestine Police Deserters and the Arab–Israeli War of 1948". War in History. 28 (1): 200–222. ISSN 0968-3445.
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