Between 1949, the year of the Armistice, and 1956, attacks from Sinai and the Gaza area, from across the Jordan and down the Golan Heights, became more frequent and more intense; they were directed mainly at civilians and civilian targets.In that seven-year period, the Arabs carried out 11,873 acts of sabotage and murder. Israel suffered 1,335 casualties; of these, over 1,000 were civilians.
Shmuel Katz, Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, p. 7
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