ABSTRACT
The final activity in the north of Palestine concentrated on the IsraeliSyrian front and the Israeli-ALA Front, while the Lebanese Army refrained from action until the end of the war. It was therefore ironic that by the end of the war Israeli forces were standing on the banks of the Litani river, a Lebanese territory. However, they arrived there as a result of their campaign against the presence of the ALA forces in Palestine, and not through their fight against the Lebanese Army. In fact, in August, Israeli and Lebanese representatives formed a cease-fire line which was based on the results of Operation Dekel. Two battalions of the Syrians’ 3rd Brigade were deployed in September along the eastern sector of the Lebanese Front-the 8th in Marj ‘Ayun and the 9th in al-Khiyam, but the border remained quiet, and both the Syrian and the Lebanese Armies adhered to the truce.1 It was Qawukji who provided the Israelis with the formal excuse to launch the decisive attack against his forces and to drive them from the country.
