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What happened to Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Faluja Pocket during the 1948 war?
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser, photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli wars, Gamal Abdel Nasser served as an officer in the Egyptian army. He was part of one of three battalions that were surrounded by Israeli forces for several weeks in a cluster of Arab villages known as the Faluja Pocket.1