The Sinai Campaign, also known as OPERATION KADESH broke out in October 1956. Following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egyptian President Gamal Abdul NASSER, an agreement was reached between Israel and the governments of Great Britain and France, who decided to take control of the Canal by force. Within 100 hours the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula and, in line with the agreement, stopped 18 kilometers from the Suez Canal. Under Soviet threat and the pressure from the United States and the UN, the IDF withdrew from Sinai early in 1957.
Here a group of Israeli soldiers are bogged in the sands of the Sinai desert.1956