Egypt requests clarification from Israel regarding historical facts in the 1967 war
Today, Sunday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on its official page on the social networking site “Facebook”, in which it said that “in response to a question about what was reported in the Israeli press in connection with historical facts that occurred in the 1967 war, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, stated that The Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv has been assigned to communicate with the Israeli authorities to investigate the truth of what is being circulated in the media, and to demand an investigation to clarify the credibility of this information and to inform the Egyptian authorities urgently of the relevant details.
The statement added, "The Egyptian embassy in Israel continues to follow up on the matter."
In a recent report, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that there is a mass grave containing 80 Egyptian soldiers, 20 of whom were burnt. The Israeli forces dug a 20-meter-long cemetery and buried the soldiers' bodies without placing tombstones on their graves or investigating any information to infer their identities.
The Israeli writer Yossi Melman also published tweets about the Egyptian battalion, which included about 100 soldiers, who clashed with Israeli forces in the Nahshon settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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