The Six-Day War was fought from 5 to 10 June 1967 between Israel and a coalition of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, after weeks of rising tension in which Egypt had expelled United Nations peacekeepers from Sinai and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Israel opened the war with a surprise strike that destroyed most of the Egyptian air force on the ground, and in six days of fighting captured the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria, roughly tripling the territory under its control. The scale and speed of the Israeli victory transformed the regional balance of power and set the borders and grievances that have shaped Arab-Israeli diplomacy and conflict ever since. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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LocationIsrael, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights 1 Connections
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In the war, Israel captured and occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.
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5-10 June 1967
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5-10 June 1967
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In the war, Israel captured and occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Six-Day War: Event Type
The Six-Day War was fought from 5 to 10 June 1967 between Israel and a coalition of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, after weeks of rising tension in which Egypt had expelled United Nations peacekeepers from Sinai and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
Associated With: Israel, Lead section (belligerent)
Israel captured and occupied the West Bank
Associated With: Egypt, Lead section (belligerent, Sinai)
the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt
Participant: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Infobox: commander2
Abdel Hakim Amer Abdul Munim Riad Nureddin al-Atassi King Hussein Abdul Rahman Arif
In Group: Events of the Early Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1969, Lead
The Six-Day War, or the 1967 Arab-Israeli war (5-10 June 1967), was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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