On Saturday 3 January, during the pursuit of alleged smugglers to decision a barrier ladder on the Israeli side of the border and a charge worth $400,000 on the Egyptian-Israeli border crossing broke the border barrier to safety and fire exchange between Egyptian and Israeli officers. According to a message made by the Egyptian army, 3 Israeli officers were to be killed and 1 Egyptian, 2 further Israeli officers were wounded.
According to a more accurate account of mediate East Monitor, an Egyptian officer was to enter Israeli territory and kill 2 officers of that state at the border station. 1 female soldier was to be killed. Then the Israelis were to send a pursuit and a fewer hours later, an Egyptian and another Israeli officer were to be killed, while the Israeli officer was wounded. Until the incidental it had adequate at the Nitzana border crossing, between the Saga and Heref mountains in the Negev desert, 40 km southeast of the place where the borders of Egypt, Israel and the besieged Gaza Strip meet.
The Israeli origin indicates as fallen sergeants. Lia Ben Nuna (19 years old), Staff Sergeant Ori Ichak Iluz (20 years old) and fallen in the subsequent exchange of fire by Staff Sergeant Ohad Dohan (20 years old) from patrolling the border with Egypt Battalion Bardelas. According to the Lebanese-related Hezbollah tv Al-Manar, the previously unknown group of the Shield of Egypt took work for the incident.
Right after the incident, the Egyptian defence Minister Gen. Mohamed Zaki had a telephone conversation with Israeli defence minister Yoav Galant, to whom he expressed his condolences. On Sunday, January 4, representatives of the safety authorities of both states held an emergency gathering on the incidental and decided to set up a peculiar committee to prevent specified incidents in the future.
The last akin incidental occurred in August 2011, erstwhile the attackers on the Egyptian side of the border opened fire on a coach traveling along the border close Eliat, then detonated a bomb close Israeli patrol and launched an anti-tank rocket towards a civilian car, killing its passengers. In the chaos that followed, Israeli safety officers shot 3 attackers who entered Israeli territory and 5 pursuing Egyptian officers on the Egyptian side of the border. This triggered a diplomatic crisis between both Tel Aviv and Cairo.
In 2012, Israel built a 241-kilometre barrier on the border with Egypt, extending from Eliate and Taba on the Red Sea to the Egyptian-Israeli-Palestinian border east of the Reef. The barrier was to prevent migrants from entering Israel from Africa and “terrorists”.
Despite this, further incidents occurred: in 2012 an Israeli soldier and 3 Sinai fighters were killed in the fire exchange; in 2014, 2 Israeli soldiers were wounded as a consequence of an anti-tank rocket fire by the Sinai smugglers; in 2015, the muslim State fired missiles at confederate Israel without causing any casualties.
Egypt was the first arabian country to betray the Palestinian case, signing peace agreements with Israel at Camp David in 1978. A year later, both countries made peace and have since maintained close safety ties.
Ronald Lasecki
