Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation released its entire secret archive of the October 6, 1973 war with Egypt and Syria, 50 years after its outbreak.
In 1973, the occupation controlled the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, as it had been and continues to occupy the largest sector of the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967. Cairo and Damascus call this war the October War, while Tel Aviv calls it the Yom Kippur War.
On its website, the Israeli National Archives said: “The days of the fighting and its aftermath were unbearably difficult for a country that just a few months ago celebrated its twenty-fifth independence day.”
He added, “On the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, the state archive has become available to all. A large collection of archival material, most of which is on view for the first time.”
He explained that he had published “thousands of files deposited in the archives, which contain hundreds of thousands of pages documenting events in all fields: political, military, international, public and civil.”
These documents include “the minutes of government deliberations, political-military consultations (the war cabinet), deliberations of Knesset committees (parliament), correspondence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, military, political and civil documents, testimonies, reports, discussions, and assessments of the situation with regard to the conduct of the war, civil defense, and the preparation of the home front during it,” in addition to to photographs, audio recordings and films, according to the National Archives.
He stated that “this group provides a wonderful glimpse into the decision-making process, in light of the conditions of uncertainty among the leaders, the fighting on the fronts, the Israeli home front, the political contacts that took place at the end and end of the war with Egypt and Syria with American mediation, and the path that led to the arrangements for the separation of forces.” With Egypt and Syria and ended at the end of May 1974.
As for the reason for disclosing these documents, the Israeli Archive stated that “with the end of the statute of limitations (50 years) set by law regarding access to these materials, the state archives worked to uncover the largest possible number of materials that could be made available to the public and consolidate them in this collection.”
The Israeli Archive had previously published documents about the war in previous years, but it made it clear that the new collection is the integrated one.
He added that in that war, about 2,656 Israeli soldiers were killed, hundreds were captured, and more than 7,200 soldiers and civilians were injured.
And about the day of the war, the Israeli Archive said that “on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, sirens broke the silence of the holiday and signaled the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, which has become a bloody wound since then.”
And he continued: “The dramatic moments that led to the war were recorded in real time, in dozens of texts and summaries, which sheds light on what really happened in closed rooms when decisions were taken, and the records of the meetings of the first days of the war show disappointment accompanied by heavy pressure .. Stormy fears and feelings.”
According to the Anadolu Agency, the archive stated that “the government meetings from October 1972 to March 1974 can be fully accessed, in a way that allows a glimpse of the discussions that accompanied the months preceding the war, and the government meetings were fully recorded even during the war.”
2023-09-07 13:39:39
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