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Yom Kippur War By Luvia R. A forth war broke out with the Arab-Israel. Also known as the October war or the Ramadan war and the Yom Kippur War .The war was fought form October 6th to the 26th of October. The war began as a plan by the Egyptian president This mostly began because wanted to gain the territory that was lost during the Six Day war. He had persuaded Syrian President Hafez Assad to attack the Golan gates which was firearm free.

The attack began on the Jewish holy day of atonement Yom Kippur. Egypt and Syria where aided by nine Arab nations. In return the Israel country and a little advanced knowledge of the attack and was then taken by surprise. After the next day the divisions of the Egyptian second and Syrian Third armies had streamed all the way through the Suez Canal with 500 tanks which nearby the Golan gates. Towards October 9th the Egyptians and Syrians were then allied by the Jordanians at the same time both sides of the war were seeking allies Israel from the United States and Syrian from the Soviet Union.

Both United States and the Soviet Union began sending Air supply to aid them in the war. By October 19th 1973 the Syrians landed a super couther attack that pushed the Syrians out of the Golan Gates territory, while pushing the Egyptians as far from the Gulf of Suez. At the end an Initial cease fire had reached the United Nations. The war really didn’t end till the following year. Israel  ’s army had lost of 2,688 soldiers, with 7,500 wounded and 530 captured. Egypt on the other side had while losing in the field (Egyptian casualties numbered 15,000 dead, 30,000 wounded, and 9,000 captured but Syrian also had something like this too. with an estimated 3,500 killed, 21,000 wounded, and 370 captured.