The memory of the battle of Ras El-Ush … the spark of the war of liberation
Today we have the memory of a great and heroic epics written by the heroes of Egypt from the brave men of our armed forces, which is the battle of Ras El-Ush that took place on this day corresponding to the date of July 1, 67.
On this day, July 1, 1967, the Battle of Ras El-Ush took place, one of the battles of the war of attrition that took place near the suburb of Port Fouad when the armored vehicles of the Israeli enemy tried to occupy it, but a force of the Egyptian thunderbolt succeeded in repelling and defeating the Israeli attack, and the incident was the spark that led to the outbreak of the war of attrition on both sides of the Suez Canal, which lasted for about 3 years.
When the Zionist enemy thought that things had been settled in Sinai after the June 1967 aggression, he considered the kit to mean the only point it did not occupy in Sinai, which is the suburb of Port Fouad located on the eastern bank facing Port Said in order to control and occupy it to threaten Port Said and the Port Said naval base.
The battle began at exactly 8:30 pm on July 1, 1967 AD, as the Thunderbolt men crossed the Suez Canal to prevent the enemy’s advance towards Port Fouad and to prevent its return towards Qantara East. This battle took place in Ras al-Ash, a small village located about 14 km south of Port Said. It is bordered on the east and west by the Suez Canal, and the battle of Ras El-Ush is considered the beginning of the setback of the conspiracy being confined to our armed forces
When the enemy forces arrived in the Ras El-Ush area, located to the south of the southern suburb of Port Fouad, a limited Egyptian force, consisting of 30 Thunderbolt heroes equipped with light weapons, was waiting for them. While the Israeli force consisted of 10 tanks supported by mechanized infantry in semi-tracked vehicles, and when the enemy attacked the Egyptian thunderbolt force, our men confronted them, clinging to their positions and were able to destroy 3 enemy tanks and kill a number of its members, which forced the enemy to retreat south. The enemy attacked again, but it failed to storm the site by confrontation or by turning from the side, and the confrontation this time resulted in the destruction of a number of packed vehicles, including them, after which the enemy was forced to withdraw. After this defeat, Israel did not attempt to control Port Fouad again. And it remained under Egyptian sovereignty and the control of the heroes of our armed forces until the glorious October War in October 73.
The enemy losses in the battle of Ras El-Ush amounted to 3 tanks and 11 armored vehicles, and more than 36 dead and wounded. Lieutenant-General Muhammad Fawzi spoke about the battle of Ras El-Ush, saying: On July 1, 1967, the enemy attacked the south of the site with forces consisting of a tank company, ten tanks supported by an infantry battalion and an engineer unit, assisted by a squadron of fighter-bomber planes, and the enemy attacked the front site of Ras al-Ush with its tanks, but failed. His personnel, then tried to turn to the left of the site to attack, but the navigation of Lake Al-Tina was an obstacle for his tanks, so he tried to force the infantry from the side into the navigation, supported by tank fire from the confrontation and flying from each side, but he failed for the third time. This site, and its good fortification on the ground, with the accurate use of anti-tank mines, and artillery fire from the western side, affected the steadfastness of this site, and the loss of the enemy, who did not dare to attempt to remove this site throughout the duration of the war, and this site became steadfastly His only foot fighters are us in the Sinai.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser was following the details of the battle minute by minute, through the telephone of the Ras El-Ush unit transmitted to his house in Manshiyat al-Bakry, and at exactly two in the morning the president issued orders to grant all the heroes of the operation medals and medals and promote them to higher ranks.
