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The "'''Three Phase Operation'''" was an Arab plan to prevent the partition of [[Mandatory Palestine]] into a Jewish and an Arab state.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=9AkiAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=Reading+Eagle+January+6th,+1948&article_id=1376,1022356&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwusnj-dqEAxUeevEDHZtiBZIQuwV6BAgLEAY#v=onepage&q=Reading%20Eagle%20January%206th,%201948&f=false |title=Reading Eagle |publisher=Reading Eagle |language=en}}</ref>

== The Plan ==
1. Eviction of the Jews from quarters where the Jews and Arabs have lived as neighbours<ref>{{Cite news |title=Historic newspapers |url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90066132/1948-01-06/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt |work=Oregonnews}}</ref>

2. Isolation of Jews of the north coastal plain and the southern desert by driving Arab wedges between them<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=8sYhAAAAIBAJ&source=gbs_all_issues_r&atm_aiy=1940&redir_esc=y |title=Arabs Bear Attack Plan |publisher=Reading Eagle |pages=Page 2 |language=en}}</ref>

3. Final drives to exterminate or subjugate Jewish communities such as [[Tel Aviv]], [[Rehavia|Jerusalem's Rehavia]], Haifa's Hacarmel and hundreds of Jewish villages and settlements<ref>{{Cite web |title=Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 06, 1948, Page 1, Image 1 « Historic Oregon Newspapers |url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90066132/1948-01-06/ed-1/seq-1/ocr/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu}}</ref>

== Aftermath ==
In Jerusalem, for instance, Jews already had fled or were expelled from upper Bakaa and [[Katamon]]. The city of [[Talbiya|Talbieh]] was still mixed "and that's next," the Arabs said.
<blockquote>"If the Jews don't move, we'll chase them out."<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

== See also ==

* [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]]
* [[Kfar Etzion massacre]]
* [[Hadassah medical convoy massacre]]
* [[1948 Tel Aviv bus station bombing]]
* [[Battle for Jerusalem]]

== References ==
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