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The Suez Crisis [a] also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, [8] [9] [10] the Tripartite Aggression [b] in the Arab world [11] and as the Sinai War [c] in Israel, [d] was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
The 1956 Suez War was a joint Israeli-British-French operation, in which Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and British and French forces landed at the port of Suez, ostensibly to separate the warring parties, though the real motivation of Great Britain and France was to protect the interests of investors in those countries who were affected by ...
On 30 September 1956 secret Franco-Israeli talks on planning a war started in Paris, which were based on the assumption that Britain would not be involved. [9] The French very much wanted to use airfields in Cyprus to bomb Egypt, but being not certain about Britain's attitude, wanted to use Israeli airfields if the ones in Cyprus were not free ...
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
What was the 1948 Arab-Israeli war? The day after Israel declared independence, it was attacked and surrounded by the armies of five Arab nations. The conflict came to be known in Israel as its ...
1956 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Soviet Union State Protection Authority: Hungarian revolutionaries 1956 1956 1956 Poznań protests: Poland: Strike Committee 1956 1956 Suez Crisis. Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel [10] United Kingdom France: Egypt [11] 1956 1956 Quỳnh Lưu uprising. Part of the Vietnam War. North Vietnam: Anti ...
First Arab–Israeli War: 6,373 10,000 [158] Israeli victory, independence confirmed 1951–1955 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency: 967 3,000–5,000 [159] Israeli victory 1956 Suez War: 231 2,000 [160] Israeli military victory, Egyptian political victory Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula until March 1957 1967 Six-Day War: 776 12,000 [161 ...
Jewish jubilation met with Arab hostility and a civil war duly erupted. The first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion officially proclaims the state of Israel in Tel Aviv in 1948 (AFP/Getty)