Category: The War of Independence

“The 13th Battalion will not break! The 13th Battalion will not retreat!” December 23, 1948, from sign 86. A stranger, if he had looked at the group of soldiers standing on the hill next to Wadi Buacha on the Gaza-Rafih road, would surely have been puzzled by the strange spectacle. Bullets were fired all around, shells exploded, while the group of soldiers, led by an officer, stood on the tiny hill and all shouted together: “The 13th Battalion will not break! The 13th Battalion will not retreat!” “The 13th Battalion will not break! The 13th Battalion will not retreat!”