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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Six-Day War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict A map of military movements during the conflict. Israel proper is shown in dark green and territories occupied by Israel are shown in various shades of green Date 5–10 June 1967 (6 days) Location Middle East Result Israeli victory Territorial ...
Arab armies would then invade Israel, and cut it in half with an armored thrust through the Negev. On May 25, 1967, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban landed in Washington "with instructions to discuss American plans to re-open the Straits of Tiran". As soon as he arrived, he was given new instructions in a cable from the Israeli government.
Israel and Iraq have been implacable foes since 1948. Iraq sent its troops to participate in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and later backed Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In June 1981, Israel attacked and destroyed newly built Iraqi nuclear facilities in Operation Opera.
[31] Israeli officials argue that the pre-1967 armistice line is not a defensible border, since Israel would be nine miles wide at the thinnest point, subjected to rocket fire from the highlands of the West Bank, and unable to stop smuggling from Jordan across the Jordan Valley. Thus, Israeli officials have been arguing for the final-status ...
The Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967, was issued at the conclusion of 1967 Arab League summit convened in the wake of the Six-Day War, in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. [29] The resolution ended the Arab oil boycott declared during the Six-Day War , and called for the establishment of the Kuwaiti-led Arab Fund for Economic and Social ...
Jordan assumed administrative control of the West Bank in 1950 and Egypt would hold Gaza, an arrangement that would last until the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israeli forces conquered those territories.
The Jordanian campaign of 1967 was part of the broader Six-Day War, in which Israel defeated Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq.For Israel, it was the most significant part of the war, as it resulted in the capture of many Jewish monuments by the Israelis.
The war was part of the Arab–Israeli conflict, an ongoing dispute that has included many battles and wars since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel had captured Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, roughly half of Syria's Golan Heights, and the territories of the West Bank which had been held by Jordan ...