page_title: Battle of Gadara
section_title: Battle
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Gadara / Battle
caption_attribution_description: עברית: גשר הרוס. צולם על ידי אליעזר שוורץ, ירושלים נהר הירמוך. English: The Category:Yarmouk Railway Bridge ruins over the Yarmouk River — destroyed in the Jewish Night of the Bridges operation. Operation Markolet (known as Night of the Bridges) was a Haganah venture on the nights of 16th &amp; 17th of June 1946, in the British Mandate of Palestine. Its aim was to destroy eleven bridges linking Mandated Palestine to the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, in order to immobilize its transportation.
context_page_description: Battle of Gadara was fought between the Judaean Hasmoneans and the Arab Nabataeans around 93 BC in Gadara in modern-day Jordan.
  The battle came after the Nabataeans felt threatened by the Hasmonean King Alexander Jannaeus's territorial acquisitions of Gaza and several towns north of Nabataea in Transjordan, along the road to Damascus where the Greek Seleucids were stationed.
  Jannaeus was "lucky to escape alive" back to Jerusalem after the Nabataean king Obodas I managed to ambush his forces on a steep hill, thought to be the hills surrounding the Yarmouk River. Jannaeus returned to fierce Jewish opposition in Jerusalem after his defeat, and had to cede the acquired territories to the Nabataeans so that he could dissuade them from supporting his opponents in Judea.
context_section_description: After the death of the Nabataean king Aretas II in 96 BC, his son Obodas I rose to power. Around 93 BC, Obodas managed to ambush Jannaeus and his forces in a hilly area where Jannaeus was "lucky to escape alive". The Nabataean army used a large number of camels to push the Hasmonean forces deep into a valley. The area surrounding the Yarmouk River is thought to be the location of this engagement.
caption: View of the Yarmouk River.
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