Bar Lev Line

The Bar Lev Line (Hebrew: קו בר לב‎, Kav Bar Lev; Arabic: خط برليف‎, Khaṭṭ Barlīf) was a chain of fortifications built by Israel along the eastern coast of the Suez Canal after it captured the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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