During his “Al-Hekaya” program, broadcast on MBC Egypt, yesterday, Friday, the journalist Amr Adib received a telephone intervention from the artist and singer Mohamed Fouad, who was affected and sad, and as soon as he began to speak, he collapsed in tears.
The Egyptian artist said that he has a brother who has been missing since the 1967 war, and his family has not found his body until today, adding that he wishes his body to be within Those buried in the recently unveiled mass grave in Latrun, Israel It was revealed by the Israeli authorities.
He added that his brother, whose full name is Ibrahim Fouad Abdel Hamid Hassan al-Shafei, has been missing since the June 1967 war, and his father and his entire family were panting after any corpses that were announced as missing from that war, only to discover that he was not among them, expressing his hope that they would be found. Finding the remains of his brother and burying him himself so that his heart and that of the family will cool down.
The Egyptian artist called on President Sisi and the Egyptian authorities to help him so that he could see the body of his brother and inform him if he was among those buried in the mass grave in Israel, pledging to go down to the street and sing for joy on this occasion, provided that it will be another. Once he sings.
The Egyptian artist had alluded to the story of his brother in the movie “Ismailia Rayeh Gay”, which was produced in 1997, and co-starred with Khaled Al-Nabawi and Mohamed Henedy. In the movie Ibrahim is named after his missing brother.
It is reported that the Egyptian presidency had announced last Sunday that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received a phone call from Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid During which, they talked about what was revealed about the massacre of Egyptian soldiers in Israel during the year 1967.
The Spokesman for the Egyptian Presidency stated that the call dealt with some issues of bilateral relations between the two countries, as it was agreed that the Israeli authorities would conduct a full and transparent investigation into the news reported in the Israeli press in connection with historical facts that occurred in the 1967 war about the Egyptian soldiers buried in Jerusalem.
He added that Lapid revealed that the Israeli side will deal with this matter in a positive and transparent manner, and communication and coordination will be made with the Egyptian authorities regarding its developments in order to reach the truth.
Earlier, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced the assignment of the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv to communicate with the Israeli authorities to investigate the truth about the massacre of Egyptian soldiers in the 1967 war.
This came after Israeli media revealed last Friday a mass massacre committed against soldiers from the Egyptian Thunderbolt in the Latrun area in the West Bank.
And the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed that the Israeli forces had buried more than 20 bodies of Egyptian commandos who entered the war as a support force for the Jordanian forces.
Ze’ev Bloch, a former Israeli soldier who was in charge of this area during the war, said that the bodies of about 20 Egyptian commandos, and perhaps dozens of other Egyptian soldiers, were buried in this site, and no one knows about that.
For his part, Israeli journalist Yossi Melman revealed, in a series of tweets, on his Twitter account, more details about the massacre and said that the Egyptian soldiers were burned alive, and the Israeli army buried them in an unmarked mass grave near Jerusalem and without identifying it, in violation of the laws of war.
Melman pointed out that the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, days before the outbreak of the war, had signed a joint defense agreement with the Jordanian monarch, who was in control of the West Bank, and therefore Egypt deployed two battalions of commandos in the West Bank whose mission was to attack inside Israel and seize military airports nearby.
Melman added that there was an exchange of fire and the Israelis fired mortar shells and set fire to the wild bushes in which the Egyptian soldiers were holed up. While the Israeli military commander Bloch said that when the battle continued, an order was issued to fire a 52mm mortar shell at the Egyptian force that had entrenched the area and killed its members, as they had no chance to escape and then it was decided to set the entire area on fire, and the fire spread quickly in the hot and dry bushes. The Egyptian soldiers had no chance of survival.
He added that the next day, Israeli soldiers equipped with a bulldozer came to the scene and dug a hole and buried the bodies of the Egyptian soldiers, and the matter remained a secret until today.