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Sax-Day War

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Sax-Day War
Pairt o the Arab–Israeli conflict

Territory held bi Israel afore an efter the Sax Day War. The Straits o Tiran are circled, atween the Gulf o Aqaba tae the north an the Red Sea tae the sooth.
DateJuin 5–10, 1967 (6 days)
LocationMiddle East
Result Decisive Israeli victory
Territorial
changes
Israel capturs the Gaza Strip an the Sinai Peninsula frae Egyp, the Wast Bank (includin East Jerusalem) frae Jordan, an the Golan Heichts frae Sirie
Belligerents
 Israel Egyp
 Sirie
 Jordan
Iraq[1]
 Lebanon[2]
Supportit bi:
Commanders an leaders
Levi Eshkol
Moshe Dayan
Yitzhak Rabin
Uzi Narkiss
Motta Gur
Israel Tal
Mordechai Hod
Yeshayahu Gavish [he]
Ariel Sharon
Ezer Weizman
Shlomo Arel
Egyp Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egyp Abdel Hakim Amer
Egyp Abdul Munim Riad
Jordan Hussein
Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker
Jordan Asad Ghanma
Sirie Salah Jadid
Sirie Nureddin al-Atassi
Iraq Abdul Rahman Arif
Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah
Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Strenth

50,000 truips
214,000 reserves
300 combat aircraft
800 tanks[4]

Tot truips: 264,000
100,000 deployed

Egyp: 240,000
Sirie, Jordan, an Iraq: 307,000
957 combat aircraft
2,504 tanks[4]
Lebanon: 2 combat aircraft [5]

Total troops: 547,000
240,000 deployed
Casualties an losses
776[6]–983[7] killed
4,517 woondit
15 capturt[7]
400 tanks destroyed[8]
46 aircraft destroyed
Egyp – 10,000[9]–15,000[10] killed or missin
4,338 capturt[11]
Jordan – 6,000[12][13][14] killed or missin
533 capturt[11]
Sirie – 2,500 killed[15][16][17]
591 capturt
Iraq – 10 killed
30 woondit
Lebanon: Ane aircraft lost[5]
Hunders o tanks destroyed
452+ aircraft destroyed
20 Israeli ceevilians killed[18]
34 US Navy sailors killed[19][20]

The Sax-Day War (Ebreu: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, "The Setback" or حرب ۱۹٦۷, Ḥarb 1967, "War o 1967"), kent forby the Juin War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, wis fechtit frae Juin 5 tae 10, 1967 atween Israel an the nearhaun states o Egyp (kent than the Unitit Arab Republic), Jordan, an Sirie.

References

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  1. Krauthammer 2007.
  2. Oren, P. 237
  3. "Pakistani Pilots in Arab Israel War". Opinion Maker. 10 August 2012. Archived frae the original on 12 Mey 2013. Retrieved 13 Mey 2013. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)"Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 9 Mey 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. a b Tucker 2004, p. 176.
  5. a b Griffin 2006, p. 336.
  6. Israel Meenistry o Foreign Affairs 2008.
  7. a b Gawrych 2000, p. 3
  8. Zaloga, Steven (1981). Armour of the Middle East Wars 1948-78 (Vanguard). Osprey Publishing.
  9. El Gamasy 1993 p. 79.
  10. Herzog 1982, p. 165.
  11. a b Israel Meenistry o Foreign Affairs, 2004
  12. Herzog 1982, p. 183.
  13. Warfare since the Second World War, Bi Klaus Jürgen Gantzel, Torsten Schwinghammer, p. 253
  14. Wars in the Third World since 1945, (NY 1991) Guy Arnold
  15. Tucker, Spencer C. (2010). The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars. The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts. ABC-CLIO. p. 1198. ISBN 9781851099474.
  16. Woolf, Alex (2012). Arab–Israeli War Since 1948. Heinemann-Raintree. p. 27. ISBN 9781432960049.
  17. Sachar, Howard M. (2013). A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. Random House. ISBN 9780804150491.
  18. Oren, pp. 185–87
  19. Gerhard, William D.; Millington, Henry W. (1981). "Attack on a SIGINT Collector, the USS Liberty" (PDF). NSA History Report, U.S. Cryptologic History series. National Security Agency. pairtially declessified 1999, 2003.
  20. Baith USA an Israel offeecially attributit the USS Liberty incident as bein due tae mistaken identification.

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