that the U.S., Egypt and Israel had agreed a ceasefire coinciding with the re-opening of the Rafah border into Egypt — the only crossing out of the besieged Gaza Strip enclosure, otherwise surrounded by Israel and the sea.
1973 Yom Kippur War Three years of relative calm along the borders were shattered on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the holiest day of the Jewish year, when Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise assault against Israel (6 October 1973), with the Egyptian army crossing the Suez Canal...
the holiest day of the Jewish year, when Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise assault against Israel (6 October 1973), with the Egyptian army crossing the Suez Canal and Syrian troops penetrating the Golan Heights. During the next three weeks, the Israel Defense Forces turned...
have been killed in Israel, a staggering toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria that lasted weeks. In Gaza, 1,100 people have been killed, according to authorities there. In the West Bank and east Jerusalem, at least 17 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli police during c...
Although it could be argued that such a demonstration strategy might have forced Egypt and Syria to pause hostilities, Israel would have been seen as weak and effectively defeated by resorting to the use of nuclear weapons. Would it have been in the Israeli interest to convey such a message?
An Israeli Centurion tank parks in the Sinai desert during the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt and Syria, 1973. (Harry Dempster/Express/Getty Images) Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War — which broke out on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in 1973 and la...
In Cairo, Egypt, foreign ministers of 18 Arab countries also asked for U.N. help. The Arab Leaguepassed a unanimous resolutioncalling on the U.N. Security Council to intervene to stop the escalating crisis in the region. "The Middle East peace process has failed. The whole process should ...
countries to accept the majority of Gaza’s 2.5-million inhabitants, and to sweeten the pot, Netanyahusuggestedthat the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forgive a “large part” of Egypt’s $22-billion debt to the IMF. Yet, the Israeli prime minister never offered a penny from his own ...
Governed by Hamas, the territory is largely cut off from the rest of the world by an Israeli blockade of Gaza’s land, air and sea dating back to 2007. Egypt controls Gaza’s southern border crossing, Rafah. Israel has placed heavy restrictions on the freedom of civilian movement and cont...
to play music on a celebration at the Tahrir Square in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Oct. 5, 2013. Celebration was held on Saturday at the blocked Tahrir Square with the attendance of pro-military protesters. Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israel war. (Xinhua/Pan Chaoyue...