Six-Day War

=== USS ''Liberty'' incident ===
{{Main|USS Liberty incident}}

On 8 June 1967, [[USS Liberty (AGTR-5)|USS ''Liberty'']], a [[United States Navy]] [[ELINT|electronic intelligence]] vessel sailing {{convert|13|nmi|km}} off [[Arish]] (just outside Egypt's [[territorial waters]]), was attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats, nearly sinking the ship, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171. Israel said the attack was a case of mistaken identity, and that the ship had been misidentified as the Egyptian vessel ''El Quseir''. Israel apologized for the mistake and paid compensation to the victims or their families, and to the United States for damage to the ship. After an investigation, the U.S. accepted the explanation that the incident was friendly fire and the issue was closed by the exchange of diplomatic notes in 1987. Others however, including the then [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Dean Rusk]], [[Chief of Naval Operations]] at the time, [[Thomas Hinman Moorer|Admiral Thomas Moorer]], some survivors of the attack and intelligence officials familiar with transcripts of intercepted signals on the day, have rejected these conclusions as unsatisfactory and maintain that the attack was made in the knowledge that the ship was American.<ref>{{Cite news |author=John Crewdson |date=2 October 2007 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-liberty_tuesoct02,0,66005.story |title=New revelations in attack on American spy ship |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=26 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011020947/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-liberty_tuesoct02,0,66005.story |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Tim Fischer, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/six-days-of-war-40-years-of-secrecy/2007/05/26/1179601730257.html "Six days of war, 40 years of secrecy"], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010074006/http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/six-days-of-war-40-years-of-secrecy/2007/05/26/1179601730257.html%26rct%3Dj%26frm%3D1%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds |date=10 October 2017}} ''[[The Age]]'' 27 May 2007.</ref><ref>{{harvp|Quigley|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0zEi3qGWLFIC&pg=PA93 93]}} Cf. [[Dean Rusk]], ''As I Saw it: A Secretary of State's Memoirs'', W. W. Norton, 1990, pp.&nbsp;386–388</ref>