Israel To Probe 1967 Mass Grave Of Egyptian Soldiers

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has said that his office would investigate reports of a mass grave in Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian soldiers killed during the 1967 Middle East war.

Aljazeera on Monday reports Lapid’s office saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had brought up the issue after Israeli newspapers published witness accounts that there was a grave in areas between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv where the Israel’s army fought the Egyptian soldiers decades ago.

Israeli media disclosed that dozens of Egyptian soldiers killed in the 1967 war are buried under what is now an Israeli tourist park.

The soldiers were reportedly killed on June 5, 1967, when fighting broke out between Israeli troops and a group of Egyptian soldiers in Kibbutz Nahshon, a settlement in the now illegally occupied West Bank.

The 1967 war saw Israel seize the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.