![]() On the afternoon of October 6 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel simultaneously on two fronts. Israel rejected those terms, and the fighting developed into a full-scale war in 1973. Anwar Sadat, who became Egypt’s president shortly after the War of Attrition (1969–70) ended, made overtures to reach a peaceful settlement if, in accordance with United Nations Resolution 242, Israel would return the territories it had captured. The Six-Day War (1967), the previous Arab-Israeli war, in which Israel had captured and occupied Arab territories including the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, was followed by years of sporadic fighting. The war, which eventually drew both the United States and the Soviet Union into indirect confrontation in defense of their respective allies, was launched with the diplomatic aim of persuading a chastened-if still undefeated- Israel to negotiate on terms more favourable to the Arab countries. It also occurred during Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting in Islam, and it lasted until October 26, 1973. Yom Kippur War, also called the October War, the Ramadan War, the Arab-Israeli war of October 1973, or the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, fourth of the Arab-Israeli wars, which was initiated by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
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