Ajlun offensive | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of the Black September | |||||||
![]() Countryside in Ajlun | |||||||
| |||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
![]() |
![]() | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wasfi Tal Habis Majali |
Khalil al-Wazir Abu Ali Iyad † | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
"Popular Army"[1] | Al-'Asifah | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
30,000[2] | c. 2,500[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
c. 150–200 |
c. 200–250 killed c. 2,300 captured |
The Ajlun offensive, also known as the Battle of the Scrubland,[3] was a major military engagement between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization during the Black September conflict in 1971. Jordanian troops encircled thousands of Palestinian fedayeen and forced them to evacuate from the area.