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Page for IDF's withdrawal from Sinai and Gaza (1956-1957)

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IDF's withdrawal from Sinai and Gaza (1956-1957)

On 5 November 1956 the Sinai War ended, after the IDF captured the Gaza Strip and much of the Sinai Peninsula. Three days later, then Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced, following political pressure exerted on Israel, the withdrawal of IDF from all the territories conquered. The withdrawal process began on 15 November 1956 and ended on 8 March 1957. Into evacuated areas of the United Nations Emergency Force, Israeli border - Egypt silence lasted ten years.

Sinai War victory

The Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, commander of Division 9 of Abraham beautiful brigade's victory parade in which Ben's letter was read - Gorionbe 5 November 1956 Sinai War ended. Paratrooper Brigade forces arrived the same day Ras Nzrany southern Sinai Peninsula and forces division nine who arrived that day from Eilat, After a lengthy ground, Sharm el - Sheikh and conquered it.

Throughout the State of Israel there was a sense of victory. After the War of Independence created the concept of "second round", on the one expressed the desire to avenge the Arab defeat in the war and, on the sense of siege in a small country surrounded by hostile countries on all sides that could start a new war. Early fifties situation deteriorated on the border with Jordan into a whirlpool of infiltration operations against them by the IDF reprisals. Bordering the Gaza Strip triggered the Egyptians, since Operation Black Arrow "at the beginning of 1955, the fedayeen terrorist Southern communities. As an arms race culminating in a plea was weapons Czechoslovakia - an Egyptian, in which Egypt has received about 40 long-range bombers, some 150 jet fighters MiG-sample 15 tanks T-34 type; here in a hundred hours IDF forces arrived near the Suez Canal and within seven days the IDF completed "to capture part of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, destroying the Soviet arsenal held by the Egyptians, took a variety of hundreds of vehicles, tanks, guns and supplies, and even a single warship, the destroyer Ibrahim Al Howell, and opened the Straits of Tiran. All this in a small number of taking into prisoner deaths of some 6,000 prisoners.