Suez Crisis

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Suez Crisis The Sinai War (Arab-Israeli conflict)
Date October 1956 – March 1957 Location Egypt, (Sinai and Suez Canal zone) Result United Nations cease-fire. UNEF occupation of Sinai. Military: Victory for Britain, France and Israel. Political: Victory for Egypt.   Casus belli Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal
Combatants
Israel United Kingdom France	Egypt
Commanders
Moshe Dayan Charles Keightley Pierre Barjot	Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer
Strength
175,000 Israeli 45,000 British 34,000 French	70,000
Casualties
197 Israeli KIA 56 British KIA 91 British WIA 10 French KIA 43 French WIA	650 KIA[1] 2,900 WIA 2,000 POW

Arab-Israeli conflict

Riots (1920) – Jaffa riots (1921) – Riots (1929) – Arab revolt (1936–1939) – 1947-48 Palestinian Civil War - Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949) – Suez Crisis (1956) – Six-Day War (1967) – War of Attrition (1968–1970) – Yom Kippur War (1973) – South Lebanon conflict (1978) – Lebanon War (1982) – South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000) – First Intifada (1987–1991) – Gulf War (1990–1991) – Second Intifada (2000–ongoing) – Lebanon War (2006)

The Suez Crisis^[1] (Arabic: أزمة السويس - العدوان الثلاثي; French: Crise du canal de Suez; Hebrew: מבצע קדש) was a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October, 1956.^[2][3] The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July, 1956 to nationalize the Suez canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam.^[4]