Arab forces deployed in the war zones…

Arab forces deployed in the war zones have increased to about fifty-five thousand, including not more than five thousand irregulars of Hajj Amin el-Husseini's Palestine Liberation Force, by October 14.

The Israeli military forces have increased to approximately one hundred thousand.

Except for the British-trained Arab Legion of Transjordan, Arab units are largely ill-trained and inexperienced.

Israeli forces, usually operating with interior lines of communication, include an estimated twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand European veterans of the Second World War.