War of Attrition

After a big fight in 1967, Israel and Egypt, along with Jordan and others, didn't make up. Egypt's leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, thought that if they kept poking Israel with small fights, Israel would have to leave the land it had taken. So, they started small battles along a big river called the Suez Canal. It was like a really long, drawn-out game of tag that nobody wanted to play.

The fighting started with just shooting big cannons back and forth across the Suez Canal. Think of it like two kids throwing water balloons at each other from opposite sides of a playground. But then, in 1969, Egypt decided to really go for it!

They started bigger fights with lots of shooting and even sending special soldiers to sneak around. This went on for a long, long time, until everyone was just too tired to keep going.

The main leaders in this long fight were Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of Egypt, and leaders from Israel. Nasser really wanted Israel to leave the land it controlled. He believed that by making the fighting last a long time, he could force Israel to talk about peace and give back the land.

It was a tough decision for him, and for the leaders of Israel too, as they had to decide how to respond to the constant attacks.

In the end, nobody really won this long fight. It lasted from 1967 to 1970. The borders where the fighting happened stayed the same as they were before the war started. It was like a tug-of-war where both sides pulled so hard for so long that they just ended up exhausted, and the rope didn't move. They agreed to stop fighting, but they still hadn't figured out how to be friends.