 On the night of 28 February 1955, Operation Black Arrow ("Mivtza Hetz Shahor") was launched against an Egyptian Army camp south of Gaza City.The IDF force consisted of 120 paratroops and suffered 14 dead; 36 Egyptian soldiers were killed as well as two Palestinian civilians.Ben-Gurion and Dayan had told Sharett that their estimate of Egyptian casualties was 10.