Description
In October 1973, Egypt launched Operation Badr, a carefully planned assault across the Suez Canal that opened the Yom Kippur War and challenged Israel’s Bar Lev Line. What had been built as a major defensive barrier became the center of a fast-moving operation shaped by artillery fire, engineering teams, infantry crossings, and rapid bridgehead consolidation.
This documentary follows how Egyptian forces crossed the canal, breached sand defenses with high-pressure water pumps, and built a foothold on the eastern bank before Israeli forces could fully respond. Operation Badr showed how planning, timing, engineering, and coordination could overcome a fortified defensive line — turning the Suez Canal from a barrier into a battlefield.