Arish or El-Arish is the capital and largest city of the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, as well as the largest city on the Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediterranean coast 344 kilometres northeast
Beach in the city of Arish
Arish in 1916
Staff of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein at el-ʻArīsh, 1916
Anti-aircraft guns of an Australian Light Horse regiment near the beach at 'Arish, during World War I.
The Six-Day War, or the 1967 Arab–Israeli war, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict. In the war, Is
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…Palestine war and the 1956 Suez War. On December 8, 1958, there was an air battle between Egyptian and Israeli air forces over ʻArīsh. As a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, 'Arish was under Israeli occupation; it was returned to Egypt in 1979 after the signing of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. In 1967 there was a massacre…