55 years ago/June 11, 1967

In Tel-Aviv GOC Southern Command, Major General Yeshayahu Gavish held a press conference where he gave a description of the Egyptian and Israeli casualties. In the evening the spokesperson of the IDF announced that 679 Israeli soldiers died and 2.563 wounded in the “Five-Day War”. According to Israeli statements they let many POWs to go, who were walking towards the Suez Canal, others were taken by trucks to there, and let them cross it. The Defence Correspondent of "The Times", Charles Douglas-Home described the Sinai – after flying over it – as follows: "There must be at least 10,000 vehicles abandoned; some are total wrecks, others untouched .... In the Mitla Pass, two miles of vehicles, soft-skinned and armoured, nose to tail, had been wrecked and wrecked again by air attack. Other convoys lay like broken-backed snakes across the desert roads. At other times it was like flying over a sand-table exercise, with whole tank squadrons in formation knocked out." The foreign correspondent mentioned four people who the victory due to: Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, Deputy Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev and the Commander of the Israeli Air Force Mordechai Hod. An Israeli ship named Dolphin passed through the Straits of Tiran, the first since the blockade. In Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed Mohamed Fawzi as general commander of the armed forces – replacing Abdel Hakim Amer –, and Abdul Munim/Moneim Riad as Chief of Staff. However, Nasser had to face the supporters of Amer in the army and the police.