2023-06-03 11:38:50
In a rare incident, the Israeli army announced that three Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday in shootings along the border Egyptian He said his forces later killed an “assailant”.
Earlier, the army spoke in a statement regarding the killing of two soldiers, saying they were “a man and a woman, who were killed by live fire near the border.”
The army initially declined to confirm the incident reported by the Israeli media, while the families were notified. Separately, the army said its forces shot dead “an attacker in Israeli territory” near the border with Egypt in the Negev desert.
“During a confrontation with an attacker in Israeli territory… the soldiers responded with live ammunition and managed to neutralize him,” the army said in its statement. A military spokesman later clarified that the attacker had been killed.
“The soldiers are continuing to comb the area,” he added, without giving further details.
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. However, the border between the two countries has been the scene of repeated attempts to smuggle drugs, which has led to live firefights in recent years between smugglers and Israeli soldiers stationed along the border.
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