Egypt+War

By: Kassandra R.
 * Egypt War **

The Libyan-Egyptian War was a a war between  and [|Libya][|Egypt] in July [|1977]. On july 20, 1977 Libyan fired at Egyptians in [|Sallum], they did it because the protest march was stopped by Egyptian soldiers. A "march on Cairo" was organized with thousands of Libyan protestors marching towards the Egyptian border in June 1977. Israel attacked Egypt and destroyed about 400. Fighting broke out on the Israel-Egypt border but then quickly spread to the Arab states with ground and air troops. Minister Jordanian and Syrian air forces had been badly destroyed. The Arab states had been preparing to go to war against Israel with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria. It began with War In independence. In this war Israel had defeated Arab. It took about 6 days of this war. Egypt suffered loss of over 80 percent of its military. 