Operation Bulmus 6
Military raid during the War of Attrition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Battle of the Green Islands.
Operation Bulmus 6, also known as the Green Island Raid, was a military raid conducted by special operations units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against what was believed to be an Egyptian early-warning radar and ELINT station located on a small artificial island in the Gulf of Suez on the night of 19 July 1969.
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Operation Bulmus 6 | |||||||
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Part of the War of Attrition | |||||||
Description of the attack on Green Island | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Israel |
Egypt Sa'ka Forces | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Zeev Almog Ami Ayalon |
Captain Magdy Bishara Qalini Lieutenant Mohamed Abdel Hamid Abdel Latif Lieutenant Mustafa Abdel Rahim Abu Sedira Major General Muhammad Faiq Al-Borini (Commander of the Third Field Army)[1] | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
40+[2] Sayeret Matkal and Shayetet 13 |
Egypt: ~75 infantry, 30 Signalers As-Sa'iqa: 12 commandos | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
6 killed[3] 11 wounded | 80 killed[4] |
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