Day 91 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The later military-heritage reconstruction places an Arab attack during the night of 27–28 February. It reports three wounded defenders, a withdrawal and recovery of the position at about 08:00. The factory was also a post of ההגנה HAʾHAGANA beside roads used by both communities. Its defenders had fired at Arab traffic, according to the same reconstruction. The site's industrial purpose therefore does not describe its full wartime role.¹ The original operational log has not been inspected.

The account establishes a position contested over several hours. It does not identify every attacker, provide a complete casualty roster or show that the workers were permanently displaced. Withdrawal from a defensive post is not interchangeable with a civilian expulsion.

The next episode involved a search and disarmament by soldiers of the English Empire, followed by an Arab attack on exposed men. Those killings are studied in Murder of disarmed defenders and workers at בית חרושת היוצק HAYOTZEK FACTORY.. Moving them back to the night of the twenty-seventh would erase the intervening recovery of the position and the separate question of responsibility for leaving men without weapons.

The road setting explains why the site mattered to national defense and civilian transport. It does not itself settle whether a particular person was armed at the moment he was killed. Each encounter requires its own account of the actors, sequence and condition of the victims.

The supplied evidence supports a night battle and morning return on this civil-date slot, with the night beginning on the preceding civil date. It supplies no defensible total for all deaths, injuries or departures across ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL on 28 February. The absence of a complete total is a limit of the recovered record, not evidence of a day without violence.

This is Day 91 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-02-28. Its daytime portion maps to י״ח באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 18th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. After local sunset, the Hebrew date changes to י״ט באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 19th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. This calendar convention does not prove that every reported act occurred in daylight.

The later reconstruction explicitly places the attack during the night of 27–28 February and the return at about 08:00 on 28 February. The night after sunset on the twenty-seventh and the daylight hours of the twenty-eighth both fall on 18 Adar I. The operation log remains uninspected; the separate disarmament and killings belong to 29 February. ²

• Why is the overnight factory battle distinct from the following day’s killings?
• What additional evidence would establish the consequences of the withdrawal?