Editing First Battle of Gaza (section)

===EEF aerial bombing===
A series of bombing raids on the railway from Junction Station to Tel el Sheria aimed to disrupt the Ottoman lines of communication during the build-up to the battle. No. 1 Squadron [[Australian Flying Corps]] and No. 14 Squadron bombed Beersheba in mid February, destroying 3 German planes, and on 25 February assisted a French battleship's shelling of Jaffa, by directing the ship's fire. On the same day, the German aerodrome at Ramleh was bombed. Then on 5 March six aircraft of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (RFC) conducted [[Airstrike|bombing attacks]] intended to interfere with the Ottoman withdrawal from the Khan Yunis line. They bombed Beersheba and the Palestine railway at Tel esh Sheria {{convert|12|mi|km}} to the northwest. Although the damage was not great, the railway at Tel esh Sheria continued to be bombed in moonlight on 7 March, by relays of aircraft. Junction Station and supply depot, an important junction of [[Palestine Railways#Ottoman military railways|southern Palestine railways]] with the [[Jaffa–Jerusalem railway]] many miles to the north, was also bombed on 9, 13, and 19 March.<ref name="Falls277–8"/><ref>Cutlack 1941, pp. 56–9</ref>