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| Israel-Palestine |
| Israel army kills Egyptian soldiers |
| 2004-11-18 |
| A PRELIMINARY Israeli army investigation has found that troops apparently killed three Egyptian soldiers they mistook for Palestinian militants along the Gaza-Egypt border, a Foreign Ministry official said. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said it appears the soldiers spotted "suspicious movements" in the volatile border area, opened fire and mistakenly killed Egyptian soldiers. If Egyptian soldiers were the victims, than Israel regretted the incident, Mr Regev said. "It's in a very delicate part of the border where we've had problems with terrorist infiltrations in the past, so according to their instructions they opened fire. Later we heard from the Egyptians that some of their people were hit," Mr Regev said, emphasising that the incident was still under investigation. The incident could cause tension between the two former enemies. Israel and Egypt signed a peace agreement in 1979, but have often had shaky relations. The timing of the incident is especially sensitive because Israel wants Egypt to help secure the Gaza Strip following a planned withdrawal next year from the coastal area. Thursday's incident occurred in an area called the "Philadelphi Road", a volatile patrol road along the Gaza-Egypt border. Israeli troops and Palestinian militants often battle in the area that is lined with tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip. The army had no immediate comment on the incident. Israel Radio reported that the Egyptian soldiers were apparently part of a unit responsible for |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 It's not like there's any operational difference between some of the Egyptian military and the Palestine terrorist groups. ... "Philadelphi Road" Fuck that. |
| Posted by: beer_me 2004-11-18 4:15:57 AM |
| #1 I get this picture of gophers popping their heads out of a tunnel and getting plinked by the locals... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-18 2:33:56 AM |