triggered detection”Mass grave“A 55-year-old woman for 20 Egyptian soldiers killed during the 1967 war, caused an uproar in Egyptian circles, which prompted Cairo to comment on the incident, while Israel confirmed the examination of the case.
The beginning was, when the correspondent of the Hebrew “YNet” website, Yossi Melman, revealed on Friday that 20 Egyptian soldiers were burned to death during the 1967 war and buried in an unmarked mass grave.
Subsequently, the newspapers Yedioth Ahronoth andHaaretzWitness accounts indicate “the existence of an undistinguished cemetery near Latrun,” an area between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where battles took place between the Israeli army and Egyptian soldiers decades ago.
In interviews with the two newspapers, residents of the area said that “dozens of Egyptian soldiers who died in the battle may be buried there.”
Cairo is attached
After raising the issue, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, said that Cairo assigned its ambassador to Israel to communicate with the Israeli authorities to investigate the truth of what is being circulated in the media.
And he added in a statement published on the official page of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the website:FacebookThe Egyptian ambassador will demand that the Israeli authorities conduct an investigation to clarify the credibility of this information and inform the Egyptian authorities urgently of the relevant details.
The statement indicated that the Egyptian embassy in Israel “continues to follow up on this issue.”
Israel responds
In a related context, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, during his conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, on Sunday, raised the issue of the “mass grave.”
Lapid said his office would examine reports of a “mass grave in central Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian Sa’iqa soldiers,” who were killed during the 1967 war, according to a statement posted on the Israeli prime minister’s page at:Facebook“.
The Israeli prime minister added that he had instructed his military secretary, Major General Avi Gil, to “examine the issue in a fundamental way and inform the Egyptian authorities of developments related to it.”
The mystery of the “mass cemetery”
According to the Hebrew Ynet correspondent, the Israeli military commander participating in that operation, Zain Baloch, who is now 90 years old, informed him of the incident, as he was the commander of the “Nahshon” division that participated in that war.
1/7 Breaking News: After 55 years of heavy censorship, I can reveal that at least 20 Egyptian soldiers were burnt alive and buried by IDF in a mass grave, which wasn’t marked&without being identified contrary to war laws, in Latrun. It happened during the Six Day’s War>>> pic.twitter.com/mMe3LGIAoz
— Yossi Melman (@yossi_melman) July 7, 2022
In a series of tweets on his Twitter account, Melman said, “After 55 years of intense censorship, I can reveal that at least 20 Egyptian soldiers were burned alive and buried by the Israel Defense Forces in a mass grave,” during the 1967 war, known as the Days War. The six.
He pointed out in his tweets that “not marking the cemetery and not identifying the Egyptian soldiers is a violation of the laws of war,” as he put it.
Melman added: “Days before the war, (the late Egyptian President Gamal) Abdel Nasser signed a defense agreement with (the late Jordanian monarch) King Hussein, and Egypt deployed two battalions of commandos in the West Bank near (the area of) Latrun… Their mission was to raid Israel and seize on (the area of) Lydda and the nearby military airports.”
He said that following “exchanging fire with IDF soldiers and members of Kibbutz Nahshon, some Egyptian forces escaped, some were captured, and some fought bravely.” wild in the dry summer.”
He continued, “At least 20 Egyptian soldiers were killed in the bush fire. The fire spread quickly in the hot and dry bush, and they had no chance to escape.”
He continued, “The next day, IDF soldiers equipped with a bulldozer came to the scene and dug a hole and pushed the Egyptian bodies and covered them with soil.”
He pointed out that the unclassified official military documents omit the Latrun tragedy, adding that “the two sides committed war crimes in the Arab-Israeli conflict,” as he put it.
The 1967 war was the second in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, during which the Arab forces, of which the Egyptian army was a major part, were defeated by Israel.
After they fought another war in 1973, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, and that was the first time that Israel signed a peace agreement with an Arab country and considered it the cornerstone of its security, according to “Archyde.com”.
