Operation Rhodes

Operation Rhodes
	Part of the War of Attrition
	; Israeli Air Force Super Frelon
Date	January 22, 1970
Location	Shadwan Island, Gulf of Suez
Result	Israeli victory
Belligerents
Israel	Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Haim Bar Lev; Haim Nadal	Saad El Shazly
Units involved
35th Paratroopers Brigade Sayeret Tzanhanim; 202nd Battalion; Israeli Navy Shayetet 13; Israeli Air Force 114 Squadron;	Egyptian Navy
Casualties and losses
3 killed, 7 injured	70 killed, 62 POWs

Operation Rhodes (Hebrew: מבצע רודוס) was an Israeli heliborne raid against the Egyptian island of Shadwan on 22 January 1970, during the War of Attrition. It was carried out by Israeli paratroopers and Shayetet 13 naval commandos, who took control of the island for over a day before leaving with 62 captured Egyptian soldiers and radar equipment.

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