The fighting occurred Coming_to_be at the beginning of the Southern Palestine Offensive , and together with attacks Attack on Hareira and Sheria on 6–7 November and the continuing Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe which had been launched by General Edmund Allenby on 1 November , it eventually broke Destroying the Gaza to Beersheba line defended Defending by the Yildirim Army Group .

One squadron from each of the 3rd and 4th Light Horse Brigades Australian Mounted Division attacked Attack and captured Conquering Tiberias ( on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee also known as Lake Tiberias ) , along with the Yildirim Army Group 's Ottoman and German garrison .

The advancing British Empire units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) were held Hold by rearguard units of the withdrawing Ottoman Empire units of the Yildirim Army Group , holding Hold a strategically strong position to the north of Gaza .

The Third Transjordan attack Attack by Chaytor 's Force , part of the British Empire 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) , took place Process_start between 21 and 25 September 1918 , against the Ottoman Empire 's Fourth Army and other Yildirim Army Group units .

Retreating columns of the Yildirim Army Group were attacked Attack during the battle Hostile_encounter for the Jisr ed Damieh bridge , and several fords to the south were also captured Conquering , closing this line of retreat Escaping .

These British Empire victories of the Third Transjordan attack Attack over Yildirim Army Group forces Military_operation , followed two unsuccessful EEF attacks Attack across the Jordan River in March and April 1918 .

Here the Ottoman and German garrison had been ordered Request by the commander of the Yildirim Army Group to fight Hostile_encounter to the last man .

On 20 September , German General Otto Liman von Sanders , the commander of the Yildirim Army Group , ordered Arranging Samakh 's German and Ottoman garrison to prepare GetReady a strong rearguard defence of the town .