In 1938, the British Army trained Zionist fighters to raid Palestinian villages. British officer Orde Wingate formed the Special Night Squads and taught Haganah members—including future ITF commanders Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan—night raids, ambushes, and collective punishment tactics against Arab villages during the Palestinian Revolt. Ten years later, those same students led the attack on the Palestinian town of al-Lidd (Lydda). In July 1948, Allon commanded Operation Dani. Dayan led a raid through the town. Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians (including civilians sheltering in a mosque) and expelled nearly the entire population—tens of thousands of people—in one of the largest expulsions of the Nakba. British training in 1938, Zionist application in 1948. The continuity is documented.