Bar Lev Line
On October 6, 1973 at 2:00 p.m. (Cairo time) the Egyptian Armed Forces launched its war against the Israeli troops bringing down Bar Lev Line (a series of fortifications).
The glorious victory of Ramadan 10, 1973, is still carved in the minds of Egyptians. Writers and war heroes tried to document the epics of the Egyptians in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The soldier who raised the Egyptian flag in Sinai on October 6, 1973 for the first time since its occupation by Israel in 1967 died on Monday at 72.
When Egyptian troops destroyed Bar Lev Line, which was built by Israeli troops along the eastern bank of Suez Canal, al-Qady was pictured while he was lifting his weapon celebrating the destruction of the line.
Baki Zaki Youssef, the Coptic retired military officer who came up with the idea to destroy the Israeli Bar Lev Line defenses using water, died on Saturday at the age of 88.
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War is being commemorated, Egypt Today sheds the light on "Operation Badr" which tipped the scales of battle.
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