Kammala wannan jumlar: A cikin 1940 da 1941, "Regia Aeronautica", yana neman katse wadatar mai na Allied, ya bugi maƙasudin Burtaniya a Gabas ta Tsakiya, galibi ta amfani da 'yan kunar bakin wake CANT Z.1007 da Savoia-Marchetti SM.82. A cikin shekara guda da ta soma a watan Yuni na shekara ta 1940, jirgin sama masu saukar ungulu na Italiya
Ya kai hari kan Mandatory Palestine, ya fi mayar da hankali kan Haifa da Tel Aviv don manyan matatun su da kuma tashar jiragen ruwa. An kai hari mafi muni a ranar 9 ga Satumba, 1940, lokacin da wani hari na Italiya a kan Tel Aviv ya kashe mutane 137. Duk da yake kokarin Italiyanci ya fi mayar da hankali ne kan Dokar Falasdinu, wani muhimmin manufa a ranar 19 ga Oktoba 1940 ya buga a maimakon haka a wuraren da ake sarrafawa a Bahrain.