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The six-day war: 50 years on

A series of articles to mark the 50th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli six-day war in 1967

  • Palestinian teenagers walk to school accompanied by Israeli soldiers in a jeep to prevent attacks on them by Jewish settlers.

    A day in the life of the West Bank occupation

  • Israeli armoured forces in action in the Sinai Desert, 5 June 1967.

    The six-day war: Israel claims land and air successes as Britain and US declare neutrality - archive, 1967

  • Yitzhak Yifat, the man in the middle of David Rubinger’s famous photograph of Israeli paratroopers standing next to the Western Wall after capturing east Jerusalem.

    Six-day war: Israeli paratrooper and Palestinian recall conflict 50 years on

    Yitzhak Yifat, who features in David Rubinger Western Wall photograph, and ex-soldier look back: ‘He said, “Please stop.” And then he took the famous picture’
  • Captured Egyptian soldiers pass an Israeli troop convoy in the Sinai desert on 8 June 1967.

    The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on

    Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation
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