Oliver Fletcher. Fought between 5 and 10 June 1967, the Six-Day War pitched Israel against a rough alliance of Egypt (then called the United Arab Republic), Syria, and Jordan. Triggered by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the strategically and commercially important Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, the war was a
The conflict lasted just six days but its effect would last to the present day. At the end of 1948, Israel's Arab neighbours had invaded to try to destroy the new state, and failed.
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