Day 468 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The general ceasefire study explains the March 11 instrument. It applied to forces under the signatories’ command, prohibited advances and facilitated UN observers. It was distinct from the later armistice. Its civilian crossing clause was a restriction requiring mutual agreement, not an expulsion order.¹

The March 11 dispatch records his denial that Israeli forces had crossed the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan’s frontier or intended to take Aqaba. It also records British warnings and a request for observers. These are attributed diplomatic positions; the Palmach account’s movement through Egyptian territory remains a separate evidentiary complication.²³

The Ein Gedi page’s related-site catalog dates records for טאבא TABA and אי האלמוגים CORAL ISLAND to March 11, but the available metadata does not establish a complete operation, its actors or casualties. They remain lesser reported catalog leads here rather than independently dated major studies. This source limit does not leave the day empty: the signed ceasefire provides its substantial event.⁴

This is Day 468 of the 599-day civil-date series, 1949-03-11. The date register’s fixed-Hebrew daytime conversion is י׳ באדר ה׳תש״ט 10th 𝑜𝑓 Adar, AM 5709; after sunset it is י״א באדר ה׳תש״ט 11th 𝑜𝑓 Adar, AM 5709. This route identifies the daily recap. It does not assign earlier occurrences, evening movements, cumulative counts or later newspaper issues to the daytime Hebrew date. The cited source dates and reconstructed clocks are distinguished in the sections above and in the linked major studies.⁵

• Why did command authority matter for including the Iraqi front in the ceasefire?
• How would observers test the competing claims about foreign-frontier crossings?