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2 unusual facts about War of Attrition


Sud Aviation Vautour

They saw combat against Egypt beginning the following year and in a series of actions through the Six Day War and War of Attrition.

Sukhoi Su-7

The Su-7 saw combat with Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War, the subsequent War of Attrition, and saw use in the Yom Kippur War by the Egyptians to attack Israeli ground forces.


Art of the Arab–Israeli conflict

The casualty toll in the 1969-70 “War of Attrition” along the Suez Canal and the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought protests from both the Left and Right and inspired artists with the need to tackle social issues and political reality.

Murder of the Aroyo children

The no-intervention policy which was carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since Israel took over the Gaza Strip in the Six Day War (in part as a result of the IDF efforts to focus on the War of Attrition in the Suez Canal region), changed as a result of this incident.

Rogers Plan

The Rogers Plan was a framework proposed by United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab-Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the continuing War of Attrition.

Yehudit Simhonit

Her grandson, Avner Simhoni, was killed in 1968 when a mine exploded in the Gulf of Suez during the military operations in the War of Attrition.


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Prestbury, Gloucestershire

Notable apprentices of his include Pat Eddery, Walter Swinburn and Mouse Morris (2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup winning trainer with War of Attrition).