29. • The 1967 Six-Day war is referred by
Arabs as the Naksa ( Setback)
• Date : 5–10 June 1967
• Beginning of 50 years of occupation of
Jerusalem, The West Bank, Gaza and
the Golan heights in Syria .
33. how did the war start?
• On May 13, 1967, Soviet Intelligence
• gyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser ordered
1,30,000 Egyptian
•
• of UN peacekeeping forces from
Sinai.
34. Role of Gamal Nasser
•
the Tiran Straits
blocking ships from
•
sser's actions .
37. U.S Intervention
• Israeli media compared the Arabs to the Nazis
• President Lyndon Johnson warned both
• invasion stood down.
38.
39. Israel's offensive
• June 5th at 7.45 a.
•
• country's air force.
• A similar assault incapitated Syrian Air Force.
40. Israel's offensive
• By Wednesday June 7th Israel
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entire Sinai peninsula.
• olan heights.
• Hafez al-Assad, then defense minister accepted the UN ceasefire.
• On 6th day Israel also ceased fire.