Yehiam convoy
The Yehi'am convoy was a Haganah convoy was sent from Haifa during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine to reinforce and re-supply kibbutz Yehi'am which had been holding out against constant Arab attacks. On March 27, 1948, the convoy was attacked and destroyed by an Arab ambush.
Ben Ami Pachter (born 1919) planned to lead a convoy on 21 March 1948, from Kiryat Haim near Haifa because supplies were short and the defenders of Kibbutz Yehi'am were running out of ammunition. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine put Yehi'am within the limits of the Arab state rather than the Jewish State. The original date had to be postponed as word reached that many enemy troops were deployed along the route. On 27 March 1948, seven trucks, loaded with supplies and personnel, set off.
Obstacles in the way forced the convoy to proceed slowly. As the convoy neared al-Kabri the convoy's seven trucks were ambushed. From both sides of the road the bushes exploded with bullets. Ben Ami Pachter who was in the lead car shouted to those behind that it was an ambush and that they should get out anyway they could. After giving the warning he was struck in the head by a bullet, the armoured car, with his body and others who were wounded, reached Yehi'am shortly afterwards.
The Scotsman published an account of the convoy ambush:
In the ambush 47 Haganah members were killed and 6 Arabs. Serious allegations were made against the Carmeli Brigade commander that he had not rushed to the aid of the Yehi'am convoy.
Yechiam convoy memorial.
Armored bus Yechiam Convoy memorial.
Yechiam Convoy memorial
Yechiam Convoy memorial
Yechiam COnvoy memorial
Yechiam Convoy memorial
Yechiam COnvoy memorial
During Second phase of Operation Ben Ami the Arab siege of Yehi'am was lifted and the first retaliatory attack was carried out against al-Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and al-Nahr, where the commander gave orders “To attack with the aim of capturing the villages of al-Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and al-Nahr, to kill the men [and] to destroy and set fire to the villages.”
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