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The Six-Day War: Timeline

May 19:
  • United Nations withdraws its forces from the Sinai peninsula at Egypt's request

    May 20:
  • Egypt deploys over 100,000 soldiers along Israel's southwestern border

    May 22:
  • Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping

    May 30:
  • Egypt, Syria and Jordan sign mutual defense pact

  • Jordan places its military under Egyptian command

    June 2:
  • Former head of Israel Defense Forces Moshe Dayan appointed defense minister


    June 5:
  • Israel Air Force launches series of bombing raids against Egyptian airfields, targeting 19 bases and destroying 85 percent of the Egyptian air force

  • Jordan shells western Jerusalem and central Israel

  • Syrian air force attacks oil refineries in Haifa Bay and Megiddo airfield

  • IAF strikes Syrian air bases, taking out most of the Syrian air force

  • IDF conquers Sur Bahir from Jordan

  • Jordanian artillery shells Tel Aviv

  • Syria shells Rosh Pina

    June 6:
  • IDF captures Latrun, cuts Jerusalem-Ramallah road

  • Syria bombs northern communities

  • IDF conquers Umm el-Katef and Abu Ageila in Sinai

  • IDF conquers Ammunition Hill on the foothills of Mount Scopus

  • IDF conquers Gaza, the West Bank towns of Ramallah, Jenin and Qalqilyah, and Abu Tor in East Jerusalem

  • Egyptian army orders general retreat

  • Arab Legion orders retreat from West Bank

    June 7:
  • Syria continues to shell areas along northern border

  • IDF captures Old City of Jerusalem

  • Jordan orders general retreat

  • IDF pushes further into Sinai peninsula

  • IDF takes West Bank city of Jericho

  • Egypt rejects UN cease-fire initiative

  • IDF prevents Egyptian retreat at Mitla and Jiddi passes in the Sinai

    June 8:
  • Syrian maintains bombing in north

  • IAF bombs Syrian defenses

  • Egypt accepts cease-fire offer

    June 9:

  • IDF forces in Sinai push through to Suez Canal

  • IDF forces push into Golan Heights

    June 10:
  • IDF completes conquest of Golan Heights

  • IDF accepts UN-brokered cease-fire; retains control of Sinai peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank and the Golan Heights

    June 19:
  • Israeli unity government declares itself ready to return the Golan Heights to Syria, Sinai to Egypt and most of the West Bank to Jordan, in return for peace and normalized ties with Arab neighbors

    August 29 - September 1:
  • Eight Arab heads of state attend summit conference in Khartoum, Sudan to consolidate Arab policy: No peace with Israel; No recognition of Israel; No negotiations with Israel

    November 22:
  • United Nations adopts Security Council Resolution 242, calling for a 'just and lasting peace in the Middle East' through Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in war, end to belligerency, right for all states in region to leave in peace within secure borders
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