Between apart, the defensive lines stretched from Sheikh Ailin on the Mediterranean Sea to Sheikh Abbas and on to Tel el Jemmi and Beersheba. However, from a point just beyond Sheikh Abbas, the continuous trench lines became a series of fortified strong points, as the Ottoman line extended south-east along the Gaza to Beersheba road, while the EEF line following the Wadi Ghazza turned more sharply south to be as much as south of the Ottoman line.Woodward 2006 pp. 87–8Powles 1922 p. 106Bou 2009 p. 162Blenkinsop 1925 pp. 185–6Downes 1938 p. 622
