Word: shadwan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While everybody's attention was turned elsewhere, a team of Israeli paratroopers seized the Egyptian-held island of Shadwan at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez, just north of the Red Sea. An old British-made radar unit, used to monitor naval traffic, was on the island. It was not nearly so sophisticated as the seven-ton Soviet installation that was hauled back to Israel from Egypt in December. Even so, said an officer, "we will get around to unscrewing it and ferry it across the gulf." After a 32-hour occupation, the Israelis dismantled the unit...
...usual, Israelis and Arabs differed on casualty claims (see PRESS). Egypt said that 50 Israelis had been killed or wounded on Shadwan. The Israelis said that they had lost three killed and six wounded, while killing 19 Egyptians and taking 62 prisoners; they added that two Egyptian torpedo boats-which normally carry 20 men each-had been sunk without a trace of survivors. In the 20-hour attack on the Jordanian badlands the Israelis reported killing five Al-Fatah commandos without suffering any casualties. In Amman, however, estimates of Israeli deaths ranged from twelve...
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