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The Galilee Panhandle (Template:Lang-he, Etzba HaGalil (lit. "Finger of the Galilee") is a panhandle along the Hula Valley in northern Israel. Towns in the Galilee panhandle include Metula and Kiryat Shmona.
The Galilee Panhandle is a narrow strip of land running from the Israel-Lebanon border in the far north to an imaginary line above the Hula Valley in the south.
In 1920, the Sykes-Picot Treaty was amended to transfer areas of Jewish settlement from the French Mandate of Lebanon to the British Mandate for Palestine.
Between April and May during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, Arab population from the Galilee panhandle was expelled by Palmach forces under the command of Yigal Allon during Operation Yiftah. Rocket attacks launched from Lebanon were an ongoing problem for communities in the Galilee Panhandle.
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