Battle for Gaza 1917: The Palestinian Campaign of WW1 (Documentary)

Support us and get 40% off Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war The ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict has its roots in another war more than a century ago. When the First World War began in 1914, the territory of today’s Israel and Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. But in 1917 the British Empire began a campaign that would change history: there would be bitter fighting in Gaza, wild cavalry charges, even talk of a modern crusade. And it would lay the foundations for a century of violence. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realtimehistory Nebula: https://nebula.tv/the-great-war » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Rose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Atay, Falih Rifki. “The Mount of Olives.” Bou, Jean. Light Horse: A History of Australia’s mounted arm. Cambridge University Press 2009. Çiçek, Talha. Beersheba-Gaza Line, 1914-1918-online International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. Freie Universität Berlin. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/beersheba-gaza-line/ Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace. 1989. Grainger, John. The Battle for Palestine 1917. The Boydell Press 2006. Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. Profile Books, 2013. Herzog, Christoph. Fall of Baghdad, 1914-1918-online International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. Freie Universität Berlin. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/fall-of-baghdad/ Kemal, Mustafa. “Mustafa Kemal to Enver Pasha, September 20, 1917.” In Türk Tarih Kurum “Belleten”, Vol. 33, October 1969, Nr. 132. https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/3343/tur Kitchen, James. “Egyptian Expeditionary Force” in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. Freie Universität Berlin, 2017. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/egyptian-expeditionary-force/ Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein, Friedrich. Friedrich Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein: Bayerischer General und Orientkenner Lebenserinnerungen. Tagebücher und Berichte 1914–1946. BRILL, 2020. Le Naour, Jean-Yves. 1917: la paix impossible. Perrin, 2015. Mahler, Gregory. The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Routledge, 2023. McMeekin, Sean. Ottoman Endgame. Penguin, 2016. New York Herald. “Jerusalem is Rescued by British After 673 Years of Moslem Rule.” December 11, 1917. Provence, Michael. The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press, 2017. » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Murat Dogan, Leander Lerch Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025