A view reveals the Egyptian aspect of the Kerem Shalom crossing, amid the continued battle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, Could 27, 2024. | Picture credit score: REUTERS
The Egyptian army mentioned on Monday {that a} border guard was killed in a shootout within the Rafah border space with Gaza, the place Israeli forces are deployed, including that an investigation had been launched.
“The Egyptian armed forces, by means of the competent authorities, are investigating a capturing within the Rafah border space that led to the martyrdom of a guard,” a army assertion mentioned.
The Israeli army reported a “capturing incident” on the border with Egypt and mentioned it was discussing the incident with Egypt.
Since Could 7, Israeli forces have been working in Rafah, a metropolis on the southern fringe of the Gaza Strip, bordering Egypt.
Since battle broke out in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on October 7, Egypt has needed to stay in solidarity with the Palestinians and preserve its ties with Israel.
In 1979, Egypt was the primary Arab nation to signal a peace treaty with Egypt, however since then their relationship has usually been labeled “chilly peace.”
Cairo fears inner repercussions from the battle and tensions have soared since Israeli forces seized the Rafah border crossing, a key entry level for humanitarian help.
Sooner or later after the battle started in October, a police officer in Alexandria, Egypt’s second metropolis, opened fireplace on a bunch of Israeli vacationers, killing two Israeli vacationers and their Egyptian information.
In a earlier capturing, in June 2023, Israel mentioned an Egyptian police officer crossed the border and killed three Israeli troopers earlier than being shot lifeless.
The Egyptian army mentioned on the time that the three Israelis have been killed in a shootout by a member of the Egyptian safety forces who had crossed the border “in pursuit of drug traffickers.”
