Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War/October War
Part of the Cauld War an Arab–Israeli conflict
Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal on October 7
Date October 6–25, 1973 Location Baith banks o the Suez Canal, Golan Hichts, an surroondin regions Result Israeli victory Territorial changes The Egyptian airmy occupied the eastren coast o the Suez Canal wi the exception o the Israeli crossin pynt near Deversoir. The Israeli airmy occupied saxteen hunder squerr kilometers o territory on the soothwastren coast o the Suez Canal, within 100 km frae Cairo, an encircled an Egyptian enclave in the east bank The Israeli airmy occupied five hunder square kilometers o the Sirian Bashan, on tap o the Golan Hichts, which brocht it within 20 miles o Damascus.
Belligerents
Israel	Egypt Syria Combat support: Iraq Jordan Algerie Cuba Morocco Tunisie
Commanders an leaders
Golda Meir Moshe Dayan David Elazar Israel Tal Shmuel Gonen Yitzhak Hofi Binyamin Peled Haim Bar-Lev Albert Mandler † Ariel Sharon	Anwar Sadat Hafez al-Assad Ahmad Ismail Ali Mustafa Tlass Saad El Shazly Yusuf Shakkour Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy Ali Aslan Omar Abrash †
Strenth
375,000–415,000 truips, 1,700 tanks, 3,000 airmored carriers, 945 artillery units, 440 combat aircraft	Egypt: 650,000–800,000 truips 1,700 tanks (1,020 crossed) 2,400 airmored carriers 1,120 airtillery units 400 combat aircraft 140 helicopters 104 Navy vessels 150 surface tae air missile batteries (62 in the front line) Sirie: 150,000 truips 1,200 tanks 800–900 airmored carriers 600 artillery units Expedeetionar Forces*: 100,000 troops 500–670 tanks 700 armored carriers Cuba: 1,500–4,000 troops Kuwait: 3,000 truips Morocco: 5,500 truips 30 tanks 52 combat aircraft North Korea: 20 pilots 19 non-combat personnel Saudi-Arabie 3,000 troops Tunisie: 1,000–2,000 truips
Casualties an losses
2,521–2,800 dead 7,250–8,800 wounded 293 captured 1063 tanks destroyed, damaged or capturt 407 airmored vehicles destroyed or captured 102–387 aircraft destroyed	Egyp: 5,000–15,000 dead 8,372 capturt Sirie: 3,000–3,500 dead 392 capturt Iraq: 278 dead 898 woundit 13 capturt Jordan: 23 dead 77 woundit Morocco: 6 capturt Tot casualties: 8,000–18,500 dead 18,000–35,000 wounded 8,783 captured 2,250–2,300 tanks destroyed 341–514 aircraft destroyed 19 naval vessels sunk
Nae aw kintras involved pairteecipatit in combat

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War (Arabic: حرب أكتوبر‎ Ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين Ḥarb Tišrīn; Ebreu: מלחמת יום הכיפורים‎‎ Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור Milẖemet Yom Kipur), an aa kent as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, wis a war focht bi the coaleetion o Arab states led bi Egyp an Sirie against Israel frae October 6 tae 25, 1973.

References

Bibliografie

• Gawrych, George (2000). The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-31302-4. 
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• Herzog, Chaim (1989). Heroes of Israel. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-35901-7. 
• Shazly, Lieutenant General Saad el (2003). The Crossing of the Suez, Revised Edition (Revised ed.). American Mideast Research. ISBN 0-9604562-2-8.