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Israel / Palestine: A force of Israeli Palmach armoured cars in the Negev Desert, Arab-Israeli War, 1948

Israel / Palestine: A force of Israeli Palmach armoured cars in the Negev Desert, Arab-Israeli War, 1948

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War or the First Arab–Israeli War was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states. In Hebrew it is known as 'The War of Independence' or 'The War of Liberation'. This war formed the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war, known in Arabic as 'The Nakba' or 'Catastrophe'.

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