Before the Egyptian forces were defeated, they had blocked the canal to all shipping by sinking 40 ships in the canal. On 5 November, Britain and France landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to cease fire, which was ignored. On 29 October, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai. On 26 July 1956, Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company, which prior to that was owned primarily by British and French shareholders. The episode humiliated the United Kingdom and France and strengthened Nasser. After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders.
Israel's primary objective was to re-open the blocked Straits of Tiran. The aims were to regain control of the Suez Canal for the Western powers and to remove Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalised the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company, which administered the canal.
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( Arabic: العدوان الثلاثي, romanized: Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. 125 tanks (mostly Soviet-made T-34s) destroyed
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