Six-Day War | |||||||||
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Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict | |||||||||
Territory held by Israel before and after the Six Day War. The Straits of Tiran are circled, between the Gulf of Aqaba to the north and the Red Sea to the south. |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Israel |
Egypt Supported by: Kuwait Libya Morocco Pakistan PLO Sudan Tunisia |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Levi Eshkol Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Uzi Narkiss Motta Gur Israel Tal Mordechai Hod Yeshayahu Gavish Ariel Sharon Ezer Weizman Shlomo Erell David Elazar |
Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer Abdul Munim Riad Hussein Zaid ibn Shaker Asad Ghanma Salah Jadid Nureddin al-Atassi Abdul Rahman Arif Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah |
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Strength | |||||||||
50,000 troops 100,000 deployed |
Egypt: 240,000 240,000 deployed |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||||
776–983 killed 400 tanks destroyed 46 aircraft destroyed |
Egypt: 10,000–15,000 killed or missing Hundreds of tanks destroyed 452+ aircraft destroyed |
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20 Israeli civilians killed 34 US Navy sailors killed |
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