Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Turawan Burtaniya a cikin shekarun 1930 sun gina bututun mai na Mosul zuwa Haifa daga Yammacin Iraki ta hanyar Daular Transjordan da Biritaniya ke mulki sannan zuwa Haifa, a cikin Mandatory Palestine. A lokacin Yaƙin Anglo-Iraqi, Irgun - ƙungiyar 'yancin kai ta Isra'ila - ta shiga cikin mamayar Biritaniya a Iraki. Nan da nan bayan sanarwar kafa Jihar Isra'ila a watan Mayu 1948, sojojin Larabawa, ciki har da na Iraki, sun mamaye tsohuwar yankin Falasdinu
, kuma an rufe bututun mai zuwa Haifa, kuma an karkatar da bututun ta hanyar reshe zuwa Tripoli a Siriya. Bayan yakin, Iraki ita ce kadai ƙasar Larabawa da ba ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta da Isra'ila ba, kuma ƙasashen biyu suna cikin yanayin yaƙi tun daga 1948.