'The State of Israel declared its establishment on 14 May 1948,
the eve of the British termination of the Mandate.
On 15 May 1948, the armies of neighboring Arab states invaded the area of former Mandatory Palestine,
starting the First Arab–Israeli War.
Primarily as a consequence of the war,there was an influx of Jews, previously living in the North Africa and the Middle East, who were expelled or fled
beginning a near total
exodus of Jews
living in the Muslim world."
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"Under the British Mandate (1920–1948), the whole region was known as
Palestine."
The Six-Day War
(Hebrew: מִלְחֶמֶת שֵׁשֶׁת הַיָּמִים,
Milḥemet Šešet HaYamim;
Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, lit. 'The Setback'
or حرب 1967, Ḥarb 1967, 'War of 1967') or June War, also known as
the 1967 Arab–Israeli War
or Third Arab–Israeli War,
was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from
5th to 10 the of june 1967.
The Six-Day War resulted in more than 20000 fatal Arab casualties, while Israel suffered fewer than 1000 fatal casualties.
Alongside the combatant casualties were the deaths of 20 Israeli civilians killed in Arab forces air strikes on Jerusalem, 15 UN peacekeepers killed by Israeli strikes in the Sinai at the outset of the war, and 34 US personnel killed in the USS Liberty incident in which
Israeli air forces struck a United States Navy technical research ship."
On 5 June 1967, as the UNEF was in the process of leaving the zone, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other facilities, launching its war effort.
Egyptian forces were caught by surprise, and nearly all of Egypt's military aerial assets were destroyed, giving Israel air supremacy. Simultaneously,
the Israeli military launched a ground offensive into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as well as the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. After some initial resistance, Nasser ordered an evacuation of the Sinai Peninsula;
by the sixth day of the conflict, Israel had occupied the entire Sinai Peninsula..
Jordan, which had entered into a defense pact with Egypt just a week before the war began, did not take on an all-out offensive role against Israel. However, the Jordanians did launch attacks against Israeli forces to slow Israel's advance. On the fifth day, Syria joined the war by shelling Israeli positions in the north
At the time of the cessations of hostilities, Israel had seized Syria's Golan Heights,
the Jordanian-annexed West Bank (including East Jerusalem), and
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as well as the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip
. The displacement of civilian populations as a result of the Six-Day War would have long-term consequences, as around
280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians
and 100,000 Syrians fled
or were expelled
from the West Bank and the Golan Heights, respectively.
Nasser resigned in shame following Israel's victory, but was later reinstated following a series of protests across Egypt. In the aftermath of the conflict, Egypt closed the Suez Canal until 1975
, eventually leading to the 1970s energy crisis
and 1973 oil crisis
due to the impact on oil deliveries coming to Europe from the Middle East through the Suez"
"Israel captures and occupies a total of 70,000 km2
(27,000 sq mi) of territory:
the Golan Heights from Syria,
the West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem) from Jordan,
and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt "
map of military movements during the conflict
Israel proper is shown in royal blue and
territories captured by Israel are shown in various shades of green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
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