Day 323 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The military chronology dates the position’s success to October 17. The following day’s JTA report describes a strategic position, while the campaign study places those advances within Operation יואב YOAV. The report is later reportage; no separate verified casualty count for Outpost 113 has been established. ^{1 2} The campaign study sets out the wider road dispute.

The October 18 JTA report attributes an Israeli warning to an alleged Egyptian broadcast. The original broadcast transcript or recording remains unavailable. The warning is evidence of a contemporary allegation; it does not establish that chemical weapons were used. ³

JTA’s October 17 bulletin covered the opening campaign and convoy attacks of the preceding days. Its publication belongs to this day; those earlier attacks retain their occurrence dates. ⁴

This is Day 323 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-10-17. 1948-10-17 is the civil occurrence date supported by ⁵ TJD uses the daytime Hebcal conversion, without the after-sunset option, to י״ד בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 14th 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 ט״ו בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 15th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. The working route does not resolve that uncertainty.

• Why is a reported threat different from evidence that poison gas was used?
• Which source supplies the Outpost 113 date rather than the bulletin’s issue date?