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This gleaned from elsewhere:


some infos about Italian air raids on Palestinian targets.
15/07/1940, Haifa, 10 S79 on fuel depots
24/07/1940, Haifa, 12 S79 on fuel depots
6/08/1940, Haifa, 10 S79
27/08/1940, Haifa, 10 S79 on refineries and railways station
6/09/1940, Haifa, 10 Cant Z1007bis
8/09/1940, Haifa, 7 Cant Z1007bis
9/09/1940, Tel Aviv, 6 Cant Z1007bis (1 landed in Turkey and interned)
21/09/1940, Haifa, 6 Cant Z1007bis
26/09/1940, Haifa, 10 Cant Z1007bis
29/09/1940, Haifa, 10 Cant Z1007bis (1 damaged by fighters, landed at Damasco and interned)
All the mentioned air raids were day attacks.
On Haifa Italian bombers performed also three night attacks on 10/07/1941, 9/09/1941 and 8/10/1941.

All the bombers were from Rhodes and were part of the 41. Gruppo BT.
In August 1942 there were 10 sorties from Rhodes against Haifa and other 24 between Jan., 1st and Sept., 6th, 1943 (no other details, at the moment) against Haifa and Tripoli (Syria).

Regards

Fabrizio

Source Santoro, G. : L'aeronautica italiana nella seconda guerra mondiale, Vol. I and II, Rome, 1958