Three Israeli Arab vacationers and two Egyptian resort employees had been injured after a combat broke out within the Egyptian city of Taba, on the border with Israel, on Friday (30 August 2024), Egyptian safety sources mentioned.
Sources mentioned a bodily altercation broke out when an Arab Israeli vacationer verbally insulted an Egyptian resort worker, triggering a combat involving different vacationers and staff.
Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera Information reported that one of many Egyptian employees had suffered critical accidents. It additionally mentioned the combat began after a number of vacationers refused to pay for resort providers.
There have been occasional assaults in opposition to Israelis in Egypt because the Gaza conflict started on October 7.
A day after the conflict broke out, two Israeli vacationers and their Egyptian information had been shot useless by a policeman within the Mediterranean metropolis of Alexandria, marking the primary such assault in opposition to Israelis in Egypt in a long time.
