Day 322 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The assault at عراق المنشية ʿIRAQ AL-MANSHIYYA left damaged tanks and a provisional count combining killed and missing soldiers. That evening, commanders considered moving the עודד ODED brigade south. The reported one hundred wounded and thirty to forty killed or missing do not establish a final death total. ¹

The diary reports מרדכי אלון MORDEHAI ALON killed at הרצליה HERẒLIYA while returning in an aircraft and says the cause was still unclear. The supplied report places the death during landing; an original accident inquiry has not been inspected. The record does not support calling this a confirmed enemy shoot-down. ²

A UN communication on October 16 called for a cessation of the new fighting and describes an investigation team moving between the Egyptian and Israeli sides. The demand, investigation and actual cessation remained different stages. ³

This is Day 322 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-10-16. 1948-10-16 is the civil occurrence date supported by ⁴ TJD uses the daytime Hebcal conversion, without the after-sunset option, to י״ג בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 13th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. This article is the civil-day recap, not an assertion that each reported or continuing action began that day. If the unrecorded hour was after local sunset, the occurrence belongs to י״ד בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 14th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. The working route does not resolve that uncertainty.

• Why are killed and missing different categories in the assault report?
• What evidence would establish how the returning pilot died?