Egypt demanded that Israel investigate to clarify the massacre committed against Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 war.
And the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday evening that the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv was assigned to communicate with the Israeli authorities to investigate the truth about the massacre of Egyptian soldiers in the 1967 war.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that in response to what was reported in the Israeli press about historical facts that occurred in the 1967 war, “the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv was assigned to communicate with the Israeli authorities to investigate the truth of what is being circulated in the media, and to demand an investigation to clarify the credibility of this information and to benefit the authorities.” Urgently provide the Egyptian authorities with the relevant details.
On Friday, Israeli media revealed a mass massacre of soldiers from the Egyptian Thunderbolt in the Latrun area in the West Bank.
The Israeli newspaper “Yediot Aharonot” said that the Israeli forces buried more than 20 bodies of Egyptian commandos who had entered as a support force for the Jordanian forces in the war. According to the newspaper, the burial site today has become a parking lot in a park inside the “Mini Israel” settlement in the Latrun area.
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.”
He added that those who were buried there “were burned soldiers,” adding that that area was full of thorns and high weeds. He pointed out that “a number of Egyptian commando soldiers were in the place and were burned at the site.”
Soldier Zeev Bloch shows details of the massacre on his computer
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 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had signed a joint defense agreement a few days before the outbreak of the war 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 control Lod and the 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.
Bloch added: “When the battle continued, an order was issued to fire a 52mm mortar shell at the Egyptian force that had holed up in the area and killed its members, as they had no chance to escape. Then it was decided to set fire to the entire area, and the fire spread quickly in the hot and dry bushes, and it was not Egyptian soldiers have a chance to survive.”
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.