Nasser's requested withdrawal of the UNEF from…
May 1967 CE
Nasser's requested withdrawal of the UNEF from the Sinai border includes, as the United Nations interprets the order, the removal of UN troops stationed at Sharm el-Sheik at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba.
The posting of Egyptian troops there will mean the closing of the gulf to the Israelis.
Israel has made it clear that the closing of the gulf will be a cause for war.
U Thant had complied with Nasser's request on May 19, 1967.
Nasser closes the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping four days later.
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