The 1948 Arab-Israeli war had two main parts. The first was before the Israeli declaration of independence. During that part, the main Arab force was the Holy Jihad Army, under the command of the charismatic leader, ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini.Â
Husseini would meet his end in a really dumb way during the battle of the Qastal. Before the battle, Husseini decided to take a walk around his positions to better understand the situation on the ground. Yet, Husseini kept walking and walking, and before he had been separated from most of his men and gotten completely lost. But he kept on walking, and without realizing he had crossed deep over onto the Jewish controlled side of the battlefield. Eventually he encountered an outpost of a soldier from the Jewish Etzioni brigade. The soldier mistook Husseini for a Jewish reinforcement, and started chatting with him. At this point, Husseini realized that something was deeply wrong and attempted to talk to the sentry in broken English (or according to some sources Hebrew). It must have been really bad English because the sentry immediately shot him in the head.
MeesNLA on
Why did they not try and capture him? he was clearly deep in Isreali territory.
LordCypher40k on
I still think nothing beats that Russian General who died to their own landmine because he decided to joyride on a captured Ukrainian vehicle that caused his own mortar teams to fire on him.
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The 1948 Arab-Israeli war had two main parts. The first was before the Israeli declaration of independence. During that part, the main Arab force was the Holy Jihad Army, under the command of the charismatic leader, ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini.Â
Husseini would meet his end in a really dumb way during the battle of the Qastal. Before the battle, Husseini decided to take a walk around his positions to better understand the situation on the ground. Yet, Husseini kept walking and walking, and before he had been separated from most of his men and gotten completely lost. But he kept on walking, and without realizing he had crossed deep over onto the Jewish controlled side of the battlefield. Eventually he encountered an outpost of a soldier from the Jewish Etzioni brigade. The soldier mistook Husseini for a Jewish reinforcement, and started chatting with him. At this point, Husseini realized that something was deeply wrong and attempted to talk to the sentry in broken English (or according to some sources Hebrew). It must have been really bad English because the sentry immediately shot him in the head.
Why did they not try and capture him? he was clearly deep in Isreali territory.
I still think nothing beats that Russian General who died to their own landmine because he decided to joyride on a captured Ukrainian vehicle that caused his own mortar teams to fire on him.