New York Times – by SYDNEY GRUSON, June 10, 1967
Tel Aviv, June 10–Israeli sources said today that after less than 30 hours of fierce fighting Israel’s armed forces had won a major victory over Syria.
It has been a bloody and bitter fight in the north up onto high ground unlike the rolling terrain that the Israelis faced in their lightning advance earlier in the week against the forces of the United Arab Republic and Jordan.
The fighting ended at 6:30 P.M. Israeli time with the acceptance by both sides of the cease-fire demanded by the United Nations Security Council.
The Israeli forces at that time, according to the state radio here, were on a line running through Masadah, El Quneitra and Butmiyah, with the deepest point about 12 miles into Syria.
Settlements Protected
This was far enough east for the Israelis to feel assured that the score of settlements under heavy bombardment all week now are safe from further harassment.
The end of the fighting on the third front of the six-day war came with every one of Israel’s major objectives achieved.
She has cleared the Egyptians from the Sinai Peninsula and from the Gaza Strip, taking control of the waterways leading from the Red Sea to Elath, the southern port; “liberated” the northern settlements, united the two halves of Jerusalem and destroyed whatever may have lingered of the myth of Arab military strength, particularly that to the United Arab Republic.
Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Defense Minister, and Lieut. Gen. Odd Bull, the United Nations representative, met.
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