Battle of Karameh

Battle of Karameh
Part of the War of Attrition
King Hussein after checking an abandoned Israeli tank
Date 21 March 1968 Location Karameh, Jordan Coordinates: 31°57′05.76″N 35°34′48.75″E / 31.9516000°N 35.5802083°E / 31.9516000; 35.5802083 Result Both sides claim victory Destruction of Karameh camp Failure to capture Yasser Arafat Israeli withdrawal or repulsion
Belligerents
Israel	Jordan PLO Fatah Palestine Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Levi Eshkol Uzi Narkis Moshe Dayan	King Hussein Amer Khammash Mashour Haditha Asad Ghanma Yasser Arafat Abu Iyad Abu Jihad Abu Ali Iyad
Strength
About 15,000 47 tanks (1 armored brigade 1 infantry brigade 1 paratroop battalion 1 engineering battalion 5 artillery battalions)	2nd armored division (10 artillery batteries 4 brigades 1 Patton tanks battalion) 900–1000 guerrillas
Casualties and losses
Israel 28– 33 dead 69 – 161 wounded 27 tanks hit, 4 left behind 2 armored personnel carriers 2 vehicles 1 aircraft	Jordan: 40- 84 dead 108- 250 wounded 4 captured 28 tanks hit, 2 captured PLO: 156 dead ~100 wounded 141 captured
175 buildings destroyed

Both sides claim victory

Jordan
PLO

About 15,000
47 tanks

2nd armored division
(10 artillery batteries
4 brigades
1 Patton tanks battalion)

Israel

Jordan: 40- 84 dead
108- 250 wounded
4 captured
28 tanks hit, 2 captured

The Battle of Karameh (Arabic: معركة الكرامة‎‎) was a 15-hour military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and combined forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) in the Jordanian town of Karameh on 21 March 1968, during the War of Attrition. It was planned by Israel as one of two concurrent raids on PLO camps, one in Karameh and one in the distant village of Safi—codenamed Operation Inferno (Hebrew: מבצע תופת‎‎) and Operation Asuta (מבצע אסותא), respectively—but the former turned into a full-scale battle.

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