The Six Day War or the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria.
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| Six-Day War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Israel |  Egypt Syria JordanArab Expeditionary Forces: Iraq Saudi Arabia Morocco Algeria Libya Kuwait Tunisia Sudan PLO | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Yitzhak Rabin Moshe Dayan Uzi Narkiss Motta Gur Israel Tal Mordechai Hod Yeshayahu Gavish Ariel Sharon Ezer Weizman | Abdel Hakim Amer Abdul Munim Riad Zaid ibn Shaker Asad Ghanma Nureddin al-Atassi Abdul Rahman Arif | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 50,000 troops 214,000 reserves 300 combat aircraft 800 tanks Total troops: 264,000 | Egypt: 240,000 Syria, Jordan, and Iraq: 307,000 957 combat aircraft 2,504 tanks Total troops: 547,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 776–983 killed 4,517 wounded 15 captured 46 aircraft destroyed | Egypt – 10,000–15,000 killed or missing 4,338 captured Jordan – 6,000 killed or missing 533 captured Syria – 2,500 killed 591 captured Iraq – 10 killed 30 wounded ------- 5,500+ captured hundreds of tanks destroyed 452+ aircraft destroyed | ||||||||
