Day 184 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

מבצע בן נון ב MIVẒA BEN NUN BET failed to liberate לטרון LATRUN during the night of 30–31 May. Entry by some armored vehicles did not become secure possession. Reports changed during the aftermath, and categories of killed, wounded and missing overlap. The battle study מבצע בן נון ב MIVẒA BEN NUN BET failed to liberate לטרון LATRUN. separates the institutional 49-dead figure from initial estimates rather than adding them.^{1 2}

דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION met Folke Bernadotte and Ralph Bunche at 18:00. They discussed positions, arms supervision and supplies to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM. The article דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION discussed truce terms with Folke Bernadotte. treats the meeting as negotiation, not a completed or operative ceasefire. Actual implementation remained 11 June.^{3 4}

The 1 June diary says that هوج HUJ had been cleared of its residents yesterday. On ordinary reading, that assigns the reported action to 31 May. The translated wording establishes a contemporaneous report of removal; it does not identify each household, the original order, the mechanism used, or whether return was later permitted. Those details remain open, and the action is recorded here without making a duplicate stand-alone article or falsely dating it 1 June.⁵

This is Day 184 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-05-31. Its daytime Hebrew route is כ״ב באייר ה׳תש״ח 22nd 𝑜𝑓 Iyar, AM 5708. Events after local sunset belong to כ״ג באייר ה׳תש״ח 23rd 𝑜𝑓 Iyar, AM 5708. This recap is an event article about the civil day, including separately labeled reports of earlier events. Newspaper issue dates and diary receipt dates do not automatically date every action. The linked event studies explain reconstructed boundaries, unresolved clocks and casualty categories. ⁶

• Why can the changing reports at לטרון LATRUN not be added to the later 49-dead figure?
• What does the 1 June diary’s yesterday wording establish about هوج HUJ, and what remains unproved?