| Operation Volcano | |||||||||
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| Part of the Retribution operations (during Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Israel |
 Egypt | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Moshe Dayan Ariel Sharon Uri Bar-Ratzon Haim Ben-David | |||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Golani Brigade 890th Battalion, Paratroopers Brigade | 11th Battalion | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 6 killed and 37 wounded | 81 killed and 55 captured. Large amount of weapons and ammunition | ||||||||
| Sources mention only 5 fatalities on the Israeli side. However, these numbers do not include Corporal Aryeh Levy, who died of his wounds later on, on November 6. | |||||||||
Operation Volcano (Hebrew: מבצע הר געש, Mivtza Har Ga'ash), also known as Operation Sabcha, was a large-scale Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military operation carried out on the night of November 2–3, 1955 against Egyptian military positions in and around the Nitzana/Auja vicinity. The operation was successful and resulted in the permanent expulsion of Egyptian forces from the Demilitarized Zone. Eighty-one Egyptian soldiers were killed and fifty-five others were taken prisoner.[1] There were six Israeli fatalities.[2]