Battle of Haifa (1948)

Operation Bi'ur Hametz
	Part of 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, Plan Dalet, Nakba
	; Jewish militants in Haifa
Date	21–22 April 1948
Location	Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Result	Haganah victory Jewish forces take control of the city, which would go on to become a part of the State of Israel; ~15,000 Arab residents expelled;
Belligerents
Yishuv Haganah; Palmach; Hish;	Palestinian Arabs; Arab Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Moshe Carmel	Capt. Amin Bey Izz al-Din (OC Militia); Yunnis Naffa (Deputy)
Strength
400 regulars, unknown number of reservists	~2000–3,500 militiamen

The Battle of Haifa, called by the Jewish forces Operation Bi'ur Hametz (Hebrew: מבצע ביעור חמץ "Passover Cleaning"), was a Haganah operation carried out on 21–22 April 1948 and a major event in the final stages of the civil war in Palestine, leading up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The objective of the operation was the capture of the Arab neighborhoods of Haifa. The operation formed part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, with approximately 15,000 Arab residents being displaced between April 21–22, and with only 4,000 remaining in the city by mid-May from a pre-conflict population of approximately 65,000.

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