The advance of the axis to Alexandria, Cairo and the Suez Canal stopped.
The VIII Army suffered 13,000 casualties, captured 7,000 prisoners, and had inflicted severe damage on the Axis forces in terms of men and armor.
Winston Churchill, General Alan Brooke and Joseph Stalin decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing Lieutenant General William Gott as Commander of the Eighth Army and General Sir Harold Alexander Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East.
Finally the axis was insufficiently victorious with many losses.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 