A security forces member had crossed the border in pursuit of drug traffickers when he encountered the Israeli troops Read more at straitstimes.com.
and announced an “exhaustive and thorough” investigation into the deaths.
Israel’s border area with Egypt has not often been marred by violence since Egypt became the first Arab country to make peace with Israel following the Camp David accords of 1978. The two Israeli soldiers whose bodies were found early Saturday at a guard post close to the Harif military base were identified as Sgt Lia Ben Nun, 19, and Staff Sgt Ori Izhak Iluz, 20.A fourth Israeli soldier, a non-commissioned officer, was lightly wounded, it added.“I love you and miss you already,” her sister Ofir said in her eulogy. “I don’t know what I’ll do now.”
The Israeli army was conducting “a thorough investigation... in collaboration with the Egyptian Armed Forces”, said the military chief of staff Herzi Halevi.
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