Strength
| - Arab Liberation Army: 3,500–6,000.
- Egypt: 10,000 initially, rising to 20,000
- Iraq: 3,000 initially, rising to 15,000–18,000
- Lebanon: 1,000
- Syria: 2,500–5,000
- Transjordan: 8,000–12,000
- Yemen: 300
- Israel: 29,677 initially rising to 117,500 by March 1949. This includes the entire military personnel count—both combat units and logistical units.
- At maximum, not half of the forces of the Israelis but these numbers include only the combat units sent to the former mandate-territory of Palestine, not the entire military strength.
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