'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 by Israeli forces in Operation Yoav against the defending Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village infrastructure, with the exception of the police station built by the British Mandate authorities, was destroyed.
^Palmer, 1881, p. 365
^Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945, p. 31
^ abVillage Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
^Morris, 2004, p. xx, village No. 380. Also gives the cause for depopulation
'IraqSuwaydan (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 IraqSuwaydan police fort, were also unsuccessful. The battles, having opened a safe...
military operation conducted against the Egyptian-held police fort of IraqSuwaydan 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 IraqSuwaydan fortress was captured and renamed the Yoav Fortress in honor of the...
Charter in 1987. Abdul Fatah Hasan Dukhan was born in 1936 and was from IraqSuwaydan in Mandatory Palestine. In 1948, he was forced to move to Nuseirat Camp...
area surrounded by a number of hills, especially the police fort at IraqSuwaydan 1.7 km to the south. The kibbutz was adjacent to a number of other strategic...
wing took Ibdis and the village of IraqSuwaydan. A simultaneous attack by the Negev Brigade on the IraqSuwaydan police fort failed. Hostilities resumed...
Yoav, during which he was the first soldier to break into the fort at IraqSuwaydan. He named his son for the operation. In Gallant's youth, the family...
capturing Lod Airport, and in October, Operation Yoav, the taking of the IraqSuwaydan fortress blocking the road to the Negev. In December 1948 he participated...
(near Hebron) after it was occupied, October Israeli bombardment of the IraqSuwaydan fort, held by the Egyptian army, on 9 November Palmach soldiers are...
in military area on the border. Hebron police station (destroyed 2001) Iraq Suweidan police station ("Metzudat Yoav Shenkar" - Yoav Shenkar Fortress)...
Palestinian villages of Bayt 'Affa and IraqSuwaydan, which were depopulated in 1948. It is on the land of IraqSuwaydan. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central...
Operation Shmone lit. Eight November 9, 1948 Israeli capture of the IraqSuwaydan police fort Operation Lot Named for the Biblical character Lot November...
enemy fire Ben-Zion Leitner Private First Class War of Independence IraqSuwaydan 19 Oct 1948 Received the medal for destroying enemy bunkers during the...
Battalion to the Ad Halom bridge, the 2nd to Isdud itself, and the 1st to IraqSuwaydan and Faluja. Heavy machine gun and armored units were dispersed in between...
Operation Shmone, successfully capturing the Egyptian-held police fort of IraqSuwaydan. Mohammad Sa'ed became Prime Minister of Iran. Born: Luiz Felipe Scolari...
It was founded on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of IraqSuwaydan. After drilling in the 1950s in the hopes of finding oil, the boreholes...
the Samson's Foxes unit, and was injured on the Egyptian front, near IraqSuwaydan, when the jeep he was driving was bombarded. Bendori was hospitalized...
on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of IraqSuwaydan. The name, which means "intensity", refers to the intensity of the battles...
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