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Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 13, 20172 min read

The Day After the War - Six Day War Project

Immediate Aftermath of the six day war in Israel in 1967.

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 10, 20172 min read

Day Six Of The War - Six Day War Project The War is over! 10th of June 1967

Egypt and Jordan had been defeated, and Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip were in Israeli hands. But the war

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 9, 20171 min read

Day Five Of The War - Six Day War Project

Throughout the war the Egyptian media under President Gamal Abdel Nasser had been falsely reporting military victories against Israel....

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 7, 20172 min read

Day Three Of The War - Six Day War Project

Looking down on the Old City of Jerusalem from its strategic vantage point on Mount Scopus, the Israeli Defense Force was preparing to...

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 6, 20171 min read

Day Two Of The War - Six Day War Project

Israel had succeeded in destroying two thirds of the Egyptian air force just the day before. Now, on June 6, the Israeli Defense Force...

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

Jun 5, 20171 min read

Day one of the six day war of 1967.

In the early morning of June 5th, Israel launched a preemptive aerial strike on Egyptian air force bases in response to Egypt’s ongoing...

Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij

May 30, 20171 min read

Egypt Blockades the Straits of Tiran

By late May, Egyptian President Nasser’s deployment of tens of thousands of troops in the buffer zone along Israel’s border was an...