page_title: Arab Legion
section_title: Further clashes with Israel
hierarchical_section_title: Arab Legion / Further clashes with Israel
caption_attribution_description: English: Vickers Viking 1B VK500 of the Arab Legion Air Force at Blackbushe airport, Hants, ex BEA.
context_page_description: The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th century.
context_section_description: On September 11, 1956, an Israeli force in what the IDF termed one of its retribution operations, Operation Jehonathan, raided Jordanian territory at Al-Rahwa, Hebron Sector, attacking the police station and clashing with a unit from the Legion's Desert Force. Over twenty soldiers and policemen were killed.
  The Legion generally stayed out of the 1956 Suez Crisis.
caption: Vickers VC.1 Viking of the Arab Legion Air Force in 1955
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