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Six-Day War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict A map of military movements during the conflict. Israel proper is shown in royal blue 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 changes Israel occupies a total of 70,000 km 2 (27,000 sq mi) of territory: The Golan Heights from ...
The peace accord at the end of the 1948 war had established demilitarized zones (DMZs) between Israel and Syria. [28] [29] However, as recalled by UN military forces officers such as Odd Bull and Carl von Horn, Israelis gradually took over portions of the zone, evicting Arab villagers and demolishing their homes; these actions incurred protests from the UN Security Council. [30]
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-born Israeli historian and Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
On land, the Blue Line is often crossed, [159] as well as incursions into the Shebaa Farms (which Israel considers Israeli territory as part of Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Lebanon claims is Lebanese territory). [160] The 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash was also performed on the basis of claims of such ...
1964 – 1967 War over Water; 1967 Six-Day War. 6 – 7 June 1967 Jordanian campaign (1967) 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition; 1968 – 1982 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon; 1973 Yom Kippur War; 1978 1978 South Lebanon conflict; 1982 – 1985 1982 Lebanon War; 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
In 2006, war erupted in Lebanon again when Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers and Israel retaliated. In 2005 Israel quit Gaza, which it had captured from Egypt in 1967.
This fact was mentioned by Israeli PM Menachem Begin, who, in order to argue for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s, reminded the Israeli Knesset that preemptive strikes were already part of Israel's history and that waiting for her enemies to choose the time of coordinated warfare is a losing policy, remarking in regards to the 1967 ...
In a 1967 war, Israel captured the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt, securing control of all territory from the Mediterranean to the Jordan valley.