Over 242 breaks in the railway lines were made, and a stationmaster's office, telephone installation, and petrol wagon were bombed.

At the same time, the Palmach's marine unit, the Palyam, sank three British guard boats, two in Haifa and one in Jaffa.

In Haifa Yohai Ben-Nun led the operation and in Jaffa, Yossi Harel and Zalman Cohen did, after a briefing by Yitzhak Sadeh.

The operation took a relatively heavy toll, most likely because the raiding team was late in arriving at the target, meaning that British officials were already on high alert.

Two weeks later the District Office in Tel Aviv was set on fire and in the riots that followed, involving 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, six Jews[specify] were killed.