Syria accepted the cease-fire on June 10. Navigational errors placed the Israelis directly under the Syrians' guns. [101], At 11:50 am, sixteen Jordanian Hawker Hunters attacked Netanya, Kfar Sirkin and Kfar Saba, killing one civilian, wounding seven and destroying a transport plane. Simultaneously, the Israelis launched a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip and the Sinai, which again caught the Egyptians by surprise. In the Middle East, Nasser’s star began to decline in the 1960s from its post-Suez peak. Feeling betrayed, humiliated army officers seized power. Throughout the crisis, its chief announcer, Ahmed Said, read out a series of blood-curdling threats to Israel. After several dozen Fatah hit and run raids in only three months in 1968, the Israelis mounted a reprisal raid on the group's headquarters in Karameh refugee camp in Jordan. Between 367[14] and 591[19] Syrians were captured. This article is about the Arab–Israeli war in 1967. For the Arabs, defeat at the hands of the fledgling Israeli state was a seismic political moment that led to years of upheaval. (2006). Amit travelled back to Israel with the Washington ambassador, Abe Harman, on an aircraft full of gas masks. The Jordanians, anticipating an Israeli offensive deep into Jordan, assembled the remnants of their army and Iraqi units in Jordan to protect the western approaches to Amman and the southern slopes of the Golan Heights. Company commander Yossi Peled recounted that "Al-Arish was totally quiet, desolate. In. The UN Secretary General U Thant was in the air, flying to Cairo on a peace mission when Nasser made his new threat. Jordan's ruler, King Hussein, was a close ally of Britain and the US. At 8:30 am, the Syrians began blowing up their own bunkers, burning documents and retreating.
The first three Israeli tanks to enter Qala were stopped by a Syrian bazooka team, and a relief column of seven Syrian tanks arrived to repel the attackers. 86–87: “Syria was severely unprepared for war. And by 1967 it was close to acquiring its own nuclear weapons. The operation was more successful than expected, catching the Egyptians by surprise and destroying virtually all of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground, with few Israeli losses. Having been in lockstep with Trump for four years, Netanyahu will likely be challenged by any departure by Biden from Trump’s tough policy on Iran and towards the Palestinians. Omissions? It was already too late, as the counter-order caused confusion and in many cases it was not possible to regain positions which had previously been left.[119]. Orbis. By the evening of 9 June, the four Israeli brigades had all broken through to the plateau, where they could be reinforced and replaced. At about 4:30 am, three Israeli missile boats opened fire on Egyptian shore batteries, while paratroopers and commandos boarded helicopters and Nord Noratlas transport planes for an assault on Al-Tur, as Chief of Staff Rabin was convinced it was too risky to land them directly in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Jordan was the only Arab state that emerged from 1948 as a winner. Many Soviet Jews subsequently applied for exit visas and began protesting for their right to immigrate to Israel. The Normalization of War in Israeli Discourse, 1967-2008, "Distribution of the Palestinian Population And Jewish Settlers In the West Bank and Gaza Since 1967", Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.–Israeli Relations, 1953–1960, "Israelis Ponder Blow at Syrians; Some Leaders Decide That Force is the Only Way to Curtail Terrorism Some Israeli Leaders See Need for Force to Curb Syrians", Israel Reportedly Killed POWs in '67 War; Historians Say Deaths of Hundreds of Egyptians Was Covered Up Israel Reportedly Killed POWs in '67 War; Historians Say Deaths of Hundreds of Egyptians Was Covered Up, The Nassar And His Enemies: Foreign Policy Decision Making In Egypt On The Eve Of The Six Day War, "Israelis Say Tape Shows Nasser Fabricated 'Plot'; Recording Said to Be of Phone Call to Hussein Gives Plan to Accuse U.S. and Britain", The Regime of Straits in International Law, Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East: Alternative Strategies, The Revelations of 1967: New Research on the Six Day War and Its Lessons for the Contemporary Middle East, "USAF in the Sinai in the 1967 War: Fact or Fiction", Key Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly 1946–1996, Getting It Right: CIA Analysis of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. “June 5th determined my life,” says peace activist and former Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti, who was a 13-year-old boy scout in Ramallah in 1967. At an airbase in the Sinai desert Nasser announced: "If Israel wishes to threaten war, we tell her, you are welcome." The fighting was conducted solely by the paratroopers; the Israelis did not use armour during the battle out of fear of severe damage to the Old City.