The Six-Day War involved three
distinct battlefronts, tied together by a shared desire on the part of the
surrounding Arab states to eliminate Israel and erase the shame of their defeat
19 years earlier when they failed to destroy the nascent Jewish state.
Egypt, the largest Arab state with a
population of 31 million, massed troops on its border with Israel and imposed a
naval blockade of Israel’s southern port, an act of war. Confronted with these
aggressive moves, and the Arab leaders' promises to destroy the Jewish state,
Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against the Egyptian army and airforce.
Egypt’s air force was quickly crippled, and a well-executed Israeli ground
offensive routed the Egyptian forces in Gaza and the Sinai peninsula in four
days.
Buoyed by false reports of Egyptian
success, Jordan initiated offensive actions against Israel from the eastern
portion of Jerusalem and from lands it occupied west of the Jordan river (the
West Bank). Israeli forces responded by attacking Jordanian military positions.
After a three days of fierce fighting, especially in and around Jerusalem,
Israeli forces defeated the Jordanians and gained control of all of Jerusalem
as well as the West Bank, the historical heartland of the Jewish people known
to Israelis as Judea and Samaria.
Following an air attack by the Syrians
on the first day of the war, Israel dealt a shattering blow to the Syrian air
force. Hostilites continued in the days that followed, and on fifth day of the
war, the Israelis mustered enough forces to remove the Syrian threat from the
Golan Heights. This difficult operation was completed the following day,
bringing the active phase of the war to a close.
Egyptian front
The first full-scale battles of the
Six Day War came on the morning of June 5, 1967 after a roughly 20 day period
of increasing tensions between Israel and the Arab states, principally Egypt,
Syria and Jordan.
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Jordanian front
In the days before June 5, Jordan had
deployed in the West Bank opposite Israel ten of its eleven brigades, totaling
some 45,000 men.
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Syrian front
In the years and months leading up to
the 1967 war, Syria had played a crucial role in raising tensions by engaging
in acts of sabotage and incessantly shelling Israeli communities.
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