Failed Combat Readiness at Al-Awja Border Crossing Between Egypt and Israel: Israeli Army’s Probe Results and Their Consequences

2023-06-13 18:22:30

13/6/2023–|Last update: 6/13/202309:51 PM (Mecca Time)

The results of the Israeli army’s investigations into the Al-Awja or Nitsana border crossing operation with Egypt on the third of June concluded that there were what it called “several failures” in the combat readiness on the border with Egypt.

The commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army, Eliezer Toledano, stressed the need to correct these “failures” and draw lessons from them.

The Israeli army decided to block the security passages established in the border fence along the border with Egypt, and decided to reduce the period of rotation of soldiers at the observation points from 12 hours to 8 hours.

For his part, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, imposed sanctions on a number of army officers working in the Southern Command, and decided to hold the commander of the 80th Military Division operating on the border with Egypt responsible for the killing of Israeli soldiers.

3 Israeli soldiers were killed by an Egyptian soldier near the Al-Awja border crossing between Egypt and the occupied Palestinian territories on the third of last June, while the Egyptian who carried out the operation was martyred.

The official version of the Egyptian army said that the Egyptian soldier was chasing drug smugglers on the border with Israel, and during the chase the soldier penetrated the border security barrier, and an exchange of fire took place, “which resulted in the death of 3 members of the Israeli security force and the wounding of others, in addition to the killing of the Egyptian security guard.”

Egypt and Israel have been linked by a peace treaty since 1979, and Tel Aviv has been occupying lands from Palestine, Syria and Lebanon since the June 5, 1967 war.

Out of 22 Arab countries, 6 countries, namely Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, maintain declared relations with Israel. Normalization between Cairo and Tel Aviv was limited to the political level, amid widespread popular rejection that resonated with the recent operation.

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