Israel takes East Jerusalem and the West Bank
1967 · Event
Paratroopers fight through the Old City to the Western Wall — the first Jewish control of the site in nineteen centuries — while Jordan's army collapses across the West Bank. The photograph of soldiers weeping at the Wall becomes the war's icon; a million Palestinians come under Israeli rule, and the occupation that follows outlasts everyone in the frame.
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