Six-Day War
June 5–10, 1967 · Sinai, Golan Heights and the West Bank
Result Israeli victory
On 5 June 1967 Israel launched a surprise air attack that destroyed nearly all of Egypt's air force, opening a six-day war against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Israeli ground offensives captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria; Arab fatalities exceeded 15,000 against fewer than 1,000 Israeli deaths.
Israel
Arab states
Other
Strength and losses
- Strength
- 264,000
- Killed
- 776–983
- Wounded
- 4,517
- Captured
- 15
- Tanks
- 800
- Tanks lost
- c. 100–400
- Aircraft
- 250–300
- Aircraft lost
- c. 36–48
Israel Killed c. 1,000
Egypt Strength 160,000 · Killed c. 10,000 · Captured 4,338 · Tanks 900–950 · Aircraft 419–420
Syria Strength 75,000 · Killed 1,000–2,500 · Captured 367–591
Jordan Strength 55,000 · Killed 696–700 · Wounded 2,500 · Captured 533 · Tanks 270 · Aircraft lost c. 372–440
Iraq Tanks 100
Lebanon Aircraft 2
- Killed
- c. 19,600
Units
Battles 4
- Operation Focus June 5, 1967
- Battle of Abu-Ageila June 5–6, 1967 · Israeli victory
- Battle of Ammunition Hill June 6, 1967 · Israeli victory
- Battle of Tel Faher June 9, 1967 · Israeli victory
Before and after
- Led to
- War of Attrition July 1, 1967 – August 7, 1970
Yom Kippur War October 6–25, 1973
Related events
Six-Day War
Also involved 26
- Hosni Mubarak
- Ahmed Shafik
- Ehud Barak
- Ariel Sharon
- Ezer Weizman
- Mustafa Tlass
- Khalil al-Wazir
- Ahmad Ismail Ali
- Saad el-Shazly
- Ibrahim El-Orabi
- Avraham Adan
- Amnon Reshef
- Yeshayahu Gavish
- Avigdor Ben-Gal
- Danny Matt
- Amir Drori
- Yona Efrat
- Mordechai Hod
- Mordechai Gur
- Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
- Albert Mandler
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Shmuel Gonen
- Dan Halutz