# Sax-Day War

| Sax-Day War |
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| Pairt o the Arab–Israeli conflict |
|  Territory held bi Israel afore an efter the Sax Day War. The Straits o Tiran are circled, atween the Gulf o Aqaba tae the north an the Red Sea tae the sooth. |
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| Date | Juin 5–10, 1967 (6 days) |
| Location | Middle East |
| Result |
Decisive Israeli victory |
| Territorial changes |
Israel capturs the Gaza Strip an the Sinai Peninsula frae Egyp, the Wast Bank (includin East Jerusalem) frae Jordan, an the Golan Heichts frae Sirie |

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| Belligerents |
| **Israel** |  **EgypSirieJordan**  Iraq  Lebanon

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**Supportit bi: Algeria
* Kuwait
* Libie
* Morocco
* Pakistan
* PLO
* Sudan
* Tunisie
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| Commanders an leaders |
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Levi Eshkol Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Uzi Narkiss Motta Gur Israel Tal Mordechai Hod Yeshayahu Gavish Ariel Sharon Ezer Weizman Shlomo Arel |  Gamal Abdel Nasser  Abdel Hakim Amer  Abdul Munim Riad  Hussein  Zaid ibn Shaker  Asad Ghanma  Salah Jadid  Nureddin al-Atassi  Abdul Rahman Arif  Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah  Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah |
| Strenth |
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50,000 truips 214,000 reserves 300 combat aircraft 800 tanks
**Tot truips: 264,000** 100,000 deployed |
Egyp: 240,000 Sirie, Jordan, an Iraq: 307,000 957 combat aircraft 2,504 tanks Lebanon: 2 combat aircraft
**Total troops: 547,000** 240,000 deployed |
| Casualties an losses |
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776–983 killed 4,517 woondit 15 capturt

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400 tanks destroyed 46 aircraft destroyed | **Egyp** – 10,000–15,000 killed or missin 4,338 capturt **Jordan** – 6,000 killed or missin 533 capturt **Sirie** – 2,500 killed 591 capturt **Iraq** – 10 killed 30 woondit **Lebanon:** Ane aircraft lost

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Hunders o tanks destroyed 452+ aircraft destroyed |
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20 Israeli ceevilians killed 34 US Navy sailors killed |

The **Sax-Day War** (Ebreu: מלחמת ששת הימים, *Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim*; Arabic: النكسة, *an-Naksah*, "The Setback" or حرب ۱۹٦۷, *Ḥarb 1967*, "War o 1967"), kent forby the **Juin War**, **1967 Arab–Israeli War**, or **Third Arab–Israeli War**, wis fechtit frae Juin 5 tae 10, 1967 atween Israel an the nearhaun states o Egyp (kent than the Unitit Arab Republic), Jordan, an Sirie.

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