---
category: Major Conflict
end: 1967-06-10
location: Middle East
start: 1967-06-05
summary: 1967 conflict in which Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt,
  Syria, and Jordan, capturing the Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights.
tags:
- Event
- Conflict
- Middle East
---

The Six-Day War was a conflict fought between [Israel](/places/israel/) and a coalition of Arab states (primarily [Egypt](/places/egypt/), [Syria](/places/syria/), and [Jordan](/places/jordan/)) from June 5 to June 10, 1967. [Israel](/places/israel/) launched a preemptive strike against the increasing Arab buildup in the [Sinai](/places/sinai/) and achieved a stunning victory, humiliating the Soviet-supplied Arabs and seizing [Egypt](/places/egypt/)'s [Sinai Peninsula](/places/sinai-peninsula/), the [Gaza Strip](/places/gaza-strip/), [Jordan](/places/jordan/)'s [West Bank](/places/west-bank/), and [Syria](/places/syria/)'s Golan Heights. The war also resulted in the Old City of [Jerusalem](/places/jerusalem/) coming under Jewish control.[^1]

Following the war, [Charles de Gaulle](/people/charles-de-gaulle/) responded by accusing [Israel](/places/israel/) of being the aggressor and canceling all of [France](/places/france/)'s arms sales to [Israel](/places/israel/), abrogating twelve years of close French support. He also delayed the pending shipment of fifty previously purchased Mirage III jet fighters.[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 12, 13.