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| Hamas accuses Egypt of slander over soldier death at Rafah |
| 2010-01-14 |
| [Ma'an] Hamas leader Salah Al-Bardawil denounced Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul Gheit's comments relating to the shooting of an Egyptian solider at the Rafah border as an "advanced judgment" on Wednesday. "Is there a relation between the death of the Egyptian soldier and the Palestinian side? ... We assured previously that our nation and our resistance and our Palestinian police put all its power to face the Israeli occupation only and they were never an enemy to Egypt. What is said about Palestinians killing the Egyptian solider is totally rejected," Al-Bardawil said in a statement. "We called on Egyptian and Palestinian authorities to investigate in this accident and track the killer of the Egyptian soldier when the incident occurred." The Hamas leader added that the Minister of Health's undersecretary, Dr Tareq Al-Mahlawi, in Sinai concluded that the Egyptian solder was killed when two bullets were fired at his back and contradicts Egyptian narratives that the soldier was killed by a Palestinian militant. Commenting on the recent call for restraint called by Hamas leaders, Al-Bardawil said "Israeli forces are the ones who attack Palestinians. The number of martyrs killed in the Gaza Strip during the last week has reached 16." |
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