June 1, 1948 Fighting by the port of Naharia

“Tonight the Syrians announced that their air force had struck back in an attack on the port of Naharia, setting big fires and sinking two boats in the harbor north of Acre.  They Syrians said they also raided the settlements of Dan and Kfar Geladi in the north.

[Further reprisals were indicated in reports that Egyptian planes had bombed the center of Tel Aviv and two Jewish settlements twenty miles south of Tel Aviv.  Meanwhile the battle continued for control of the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem]”

Source: New York Times June 2, 1948