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Urooba Jamal

EXPLAINED: How the october war changed the world - The Real Truth

President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, second from right, at Military HQ during the 1973 War [Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images]

It was supposed to be impenetrable, the steep, 21-metre (70-foot) wall of sand dotted with heavily armed strongholds – attempting to breach it, a suicide mission.

Or so the Israelis thought.

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