Operation Hiram

Operation Hiram
Part of 1948 Arab–Israeli War
IDF soldiers in Sa'sa', 30 October 1948
Date October 29, 1948 – October 31, 1948 Location Upper Galilee, Israel and Southern Lebanon Result Israel captures the Upper Galilee and part of Southern Lebanon
Belligerents
Israel 7th Armoured Brigade Carmeli Brigade Golani Brigade Oded Brigade Circassian Unit Druze Unit	Arab Liberation Army Syria  Lebanon
Commanders and leaders
Moshe Carmel	Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Strength
Over 6,000	2–4,000
Casualties and losses
"absurdly light"	400 Arabs killed, 550 taken prisoner, 50,000 Palestinian refugees

Arab Liberation Army
Syria

Operation Hiram was a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was led by General Moshe Carmel, and aimed at capturing the Upper Galilee region from the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) forces led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji and a Syrian battalion. The operation, which lasted just 60 hours (October 29–31), was marked by several massacres of Arabs and ended just before the ceasefire with the neighboring Arab countries went into effect. As a result of the operation, the Upper Galilee, originally slated by the United Nations partition plan to be part of an Arab state, would be controlled by the newly formed state of Israel, and that more than 50,000 new Palestinian refugees would leave for Lebanon.

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