Arab legion en-masse attack village of Kfar-Etzion killing surrendered; 5 Arab armies attack Israel, day after announced Independence Day

Jordan, Second Edition, Hal Marcovitz, Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. · 2009 · Culture, pp.39-40
By the spring of 1948, there appeared to be no hope for a peaceful resolution. Both sides took up arms. One of the first major battles was at Deir Yassin, an Arab village that overlooked the highway leading to Jerusalem. 
Deir Yassin was considered strategically important because a well-armed group of soldiers hidden in the village could convoys and troops heading for Jerusalem. About 100 members of a Jewish guerrilla group known as the Irgun attacked the town on April 9.
They were met with armed resistance by villagers. The siege took hours. Some 200 Arabs were killed in the fighting, while the Irgun lost four soldiers. Both sides claimed atrocities were committed during the battle: Jews declared that Arabs who surrendered hid guns in their robes, then opened fire on their unsuspected captors. While the Arabs said the Irgun targeted civilians during the battle.
Despite efforts by Israel to keep Jordan out of the war—Israeli diplomat Golda Meyerson (later, she would serve as prime minister as Golda Meir) met twice with Abdullah, hoping to keep him from committing his troops. Nevertheless, on May 4 , 1948, the Arab Legion attacked the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion. After a day of fierce fighting, the Arabs were forced to retreat. They returned a week later and laid siege to the settlement
for two days, finally overrunning the badly outnumbered defenders. Many of the Jews were massacred after they surrendered.
Kfar Etzion would turn out to be one of the few Jewish losses in the war.
Abdullah announced that he would send the Arab Legion across the Jordan River to Palestine to defend the Arabs living there.
Other Arab nations supported Jordan. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq joined the coalition, well, forming, with Jordan, the Arab League in 1945...

Israel Under Attack
Israel's Independence Day was set for May 14 , 1948, the day the British Mandate officially ended. On May 15, the armies of five Arab nations attacked Israel.

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