Israeli military officials appear to be treating the incident along the usually quiet border as a rogue assault. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JERUSALEM – A man identified by Israeli and Egyptian authorities as an Egyptian security officer entered Israeli territory on Saturday and killed three Israeli soldiers in two separate shooting incidents in a remote desert area along the border between the two countries, according to an initial investigation by the Israeli military.
More soldiers arrived to conduct searches in the area, and around noon, they tracked down a suspect in Israeli territory, Lt. Col. Hecht said. In a subsequent exchange of fire, a third Israeli soldier was killed, as was the suspect, who was dressed in the fatigues worn by Egyptian border guards. An Israeli non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded in the firefight.
The Israeli military said that the assailant’s affiliation and motives were not immediately clear, and that officials were investigating whether he was acting alone or on behalf of an organisation. The Egyptian army offered “sincere condolences to the families of the deceased” in its statement and suggested that legal measures would be taken against anybody else found to be involved.
Israeli and Egyptian authorities have coordinated closely along the border in recent years, particularly since the rise of an Islamic State group affiliate in the vast deserts of the Sinai Peninsula. The affiliate downed a Russian passenger jet in 2015 and has frequently attacked Egyptian security forces there.
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