Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims

The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It began when Israel launched what it considered a pre-emptive attack against Egypt, following the latter's closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the deployment of troops in the Sinai near the Israeli border, and after months of increasingly tense bord ...

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• Six-Day War - Background
• Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war
• Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies
• Six-Day War - Warfare
• Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack
• Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula
• Six-Day War - West Bank
• Six-Day War - Golan Heights
• Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea
• Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation
• Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims
• Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war
• Six-Day War - U.S. and British support
• Six-Day War - Soviet instigation
• Six-Day War - Footnotes

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The dramatic events of the Six Day War have given rise to a number of accusations of atrocities and controversial claims and theories. Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war. In a 16 August 1995 interview for Israel Radio, Aryeh Yitzhaki of Bar Ilan University, who had worked previously in the IDF history department, accused a reconnaissance unit, known as Shaked (Almond), of which then housing minister in the Labour government Binyamin Ben-Eliezer had been acting commander, of kill ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Operation Focus. Israel's first and most important move was a pre-emptive attack on the Egyptian Air Force. It was by far the largest and the most modern of all the Arab air forces, sporting about 450 combat aircraft, all of them Soviet-built and relatively new. Of particular concern to the Israelis were the 30 TU-16 Badger medium bombers, capable of inflicting heavy damage to Israeli military and civilian centers. [ ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack. Main article: Operation Focus Israel's first and most important move was a pre-emptive attack on the Egyptian Air Force. It was by far the largest and the most modern of all the Arab air forces, sporting about 450 combat aircraft, all of them Soviet-built and relatively new. Of particular concern to the Israelis were the 30 TU-16 Badger medium bombers, capable of inflicting heavy damage to Israeli military and civilian centers. See also:

Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack. Main articles: Operation Focus, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Preliminary Air Attack, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war. The 1956 Suez War represented for Egypt a military defeat, but a political victory. Heavy diplomatic pressure forced Israel to withdraw its military from the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. After the 1956 war, Egypt agreed to the stationing of a UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai, UNEF (United Nations Emergency Force), to keep that border region demilitarized, and prevent guerrillas from crossing the border into Israel. As a result the border between Egypt and Israel qu ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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By June 10, Israel had completed its final offensive in the Golan Heights and a ceasefire was signed the following day. Israel had seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. Overall, Israel's territory grew by a factor of 3, including about one million Arabs placed under Israel's direct control in the newly captured territories. Israel's strategic depth grew to at least 300 kilometers in the south, 60 kilometers in the east and 20 kilometers of extremely rugged terrain in the north, a securit ...

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Six-Day War, Six-Day War - Background, Six-Day War - Main reasons for the war, Six-Day War - Condition of Combatant Armies, Six-Day War - Warfare, Six-Day War - Operation Focus, Six-Day War - Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Six-Day War - West Bank, Six-Day War - Golan Heights, Six-Day War - War in the air and at sea, Six-Day War - Conclusion of conflict and post-war situation, Six-Day War - Accusations and controversial claims, Six-Day War - IDF killings of Egyptian prisoners of war, Six-Day War - U.S. and British combat support, Six-Day War - U.S. and British non-combat support, Six-Day War - Soviet instigation, Six-Day War - Footnotes

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