Jerusalem Battles
Jerusalem was besieged by Arab forces in 1948, with key roads cut off and desperate convoys supplying the Jewish population until military breakthroughs.
Jerusalem, claimed as the heart of the Jewish people, was among the fiercest battlegrounds of the 1948 war. As Arab forces from the Jordanian Arab Legion and local militias advanced, Jewish neighborhoods were besieged and critical supply routes were severed. […]
Palmach Archive, Jerusalem Foundation, Yitzhak Rabin Center
Arab, Besieged, Breakthroughs, Convoys, Desperate, Forces, Jerusalem, Jewish, Military, Population
