The Six Day War

The Six Day war officially broke out on the fifth of June in 1967 after three weeks of tension mainly between Israel and Egypt. Egypt had concentrated its armed forces in the Sinai peninsula, and Gamal Abdel-Nasser demanded that the UN Emergency Force evacuate the buffer zone which it provided between the two nations (Report by the Secretary-General26 May, 1967). On the 23rd of May Egyptian navy vessels blocked the Straits of Tiran thus preventing any Israeli …showed first 75 words of 1631 total…

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