| Operation Yoav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (410 words) |
 | The force consisted of three infantry brigades, the Negev Brigade, the Givati Brigade and the Yiftach Brigade, an armored battalion from the 8th Armored Brigade and the largest artillery formation that had ever been available to the IDF at the time. |
| A battalion of the Yiftach Brigade mined the railroad between El-Arish and Rafah and various roads in the Gaza area. |
| Bu the southern Negev Desert, that was alloted to a Jewish state in the 1947 Partition plan for Palestine, was still under Egyptian control. |
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