Page "Gamal Abdel Nasser" Paragraph 20

In May 1948, after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal, King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine, with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion.

During the war, he wrote of the unpreparedness of the Egyptian army, saying " our soldiers were dashed against fortifications.

" Nasser was deputy commander of the Egyptian forces that secured the area known as the Falluja Pocket.

By August 1948, his brigade was surrounded by the Israeli Army and appeals for help from Jordan's Arab Legion went unheeded.

Nonetheless, Nasser refused to surrender.

Negotiations between Israel and Egypt finally resulted in the ceding of Falluja to Israel.