1967 War
As he spoke on the 48th anniversary of the October War victory on Wednesday, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has listed the lessons citizens should learn from the hard days of the 1967 defeat and the cheerful days of the 1973 victory.
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the resignation of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
“It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after the 1967 war,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
The chairperson of the New Administrative Capital Company for Urban Development said that the new capital’s Monday explosion was caused by war remnants.