Six-Day War

=== Explanatory notes ===
# {{note label|reference_name_A|a|none|&nbsp;Photograph:}}<br />It was twenty minutes after the capture of the Western Wall that [[David Rubinger]] shot his "signature" photograph of three Israeli paratroopers gazing in wonder up at the wall.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaniuk |first=Yoram |url=http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0003/arm01.htm |title=June 10, 1967 – Israeli paratroopers reach the Western Wall |work=The Digital Journalist |access-date=2 December 2008}}</ref> As part of the terms for his access to the front lines, Rubinger handed the [[negative (photography)|negatives]] to the Israeli government, who then distributed this image widely. Although he was displeased with the violation of his copyright, the widespread use of his photo made it famous,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/david-rubinger-in-the-picture-1.1825 |title=David Rubinger in the picture |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |first=Eric |last=Silver |date=16 February 2006 |access-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008235049/https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/david-rubinger-in-the-picture-1.1825 |archive-date=8 October 2022 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> and it is now considered a defining image of the conflict and one of the best-known in the history of Israel.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Urquhart |first=Conal |date=6 May 2007 |title=Six days in June |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/06/israelandthepalestinians.features1 |access-date=2 December 2008}}</ref>
# {{note label|reference_name_H|h|none|&nbsp;Both Egypt and Israel announced that they had been attacked by the other country.}}
::* [[Gideon Rafael]] [Israeli Ambassador to the UN] received a message from the Israeli foreign office: "Inform immediately the President of the Sec. Co. that Israel is now engaged in repelling Egyptian land and air forces." At 3:10&nbsp;am, Rafael woke ambassador [[Hans Tabor]], the Danish President of the Security Council for June, with the news that Egyptian forces had "moved against Israel".{{Sfnp|Bailey|1990|p=225}}
::* [At Security Council meeting of 5 June], both Israel and Egypt claimed to be repelling an invasion by the other.{{Sfnp|Bailey|1990|p=225}}
::* "Egyptian sources claimed that Israel had initiated hostilities [...] but Israeli officials – Eban and Evron – swore that Egypt had fired first".{{Sfnp|Oren|2002|p=196}}
::* "Gideon Rafael phoned Danish ambassador Hans Tabor, Security Council president for the month of June, and informed him that Israel was responding to a 'cowardly and treacherous' attack from Egypt...".{{Sfnp|Oren|2002|p=198}}
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