Operation Hisul

Operation Hisul
	Part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War of the 1948 Palestine war
	; Gamal Abdel Nasser in al-Faluja
Date	27 – 28 December 1948
Location	al-Faluja, Mandatory Palestine
Result	Israeli strategic failure
Belligerents
Israel	Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Benz Friedan	Sayed Taha
Casualties and losses
Unknown	90 killed

Operation Hisul (Hebrew: חיסול מבצע, Mivtza Hisul, lit. Operation Liquidation) was a failed Israeli attempt to dissolve the Egyptian pocket of al-Faluja on the night of 28 December during Operation Horev. The operation was the second-worst loss suffered by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a single engagement behind the Kfar Etzion massacre in May up until that point.^[1]

^ morris, benny (2008). 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press. pp. 372–373. ISBN 9780300126969.

[1] rris, benny (2008). 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press. pp. 372–373. ISBN 9780300126969.

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