 On 15 May, the situation in the newly declared State of Israel and the remnants of Palestine was chaotic with the British leaving.The Jewish forces gained advantage over the Arab forces, but they feared the intervention of the Arab armies that had been announced for that day.Latrun is located at the crossroads between the Tel Aviv–Ramla–Jerusalem and Ramallah–Isdud roads in the area allocated to the Arab state by the United Nations Partition Plan.