EGYPT-ISRAEL-SYRIA-CONFLICT-1973-ANNIVERSARY

Youths attend a short documentary feature showing self-propelled anti-aicraft guns in archival clips from the 1973 Arab-Israeli war while visiting the "6th of October War Panorama" museum and memorial in Cairo on October 1, 2023. On October 6, 1973, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, an Arab military coalition led by Egypt and Syria launched a simultaneous surprise attack in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab–Israeli War. This war provoked the oil shock of 1973 and led to the opening of peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt, concluded by the Camp David agreement in 1978. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)