Operation Bulmus 6

Operation Bulmus 6
	Part of the War of Attrition
	; Description of the attack on Green Island
Date	19 July 1969
Location	Green Island, Gulf of Suez
Result	Israeli victory
Belligerents
Israel	Egypt; Sa'ka Forces
Commanders and leaders
Zeev Almog; Ami Ayalon	Captain Magdy Bishara Qalini; Lieutenant Mohamed Abdel Hamid Abdel Latif; Lieutenant Mustafa Abdel Rahim Abu Sedira ; Major General Muhammad Faiq Al-Borini ; (Commander of the Third Field Army)
Strength
40+ Sayeret Matkal and Shayetet 13	Egypt: ~75 infantry, 30 Signalers ; As-Sa'iqa: 12 commandos
Casualties and losses
6 killed; 11 wounded	80 killed

Operation Bulmus 6, also known as the Green Island Raid, was a military raid conducted by special operations units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against what was believed to be an Egyptian early-warning radar and ELINT station located on a small artificial island in the Gulf of Suez on the night of 19 July 1969.

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