2023-10-08 11:45:14
Serious incident in Egypt, two Israeli tourists were killed by an Egyptian police officer. The two countries quickly reaffirmed their cooperation. The attack comes in the middle of the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas.
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Two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide were killed this Sunday by a police officer in Alexandria, on the Egyptian coast, a rare attack which comes in the midst of war between Egypt’s two neighbors, Israel and Gaza under the control of Palestinian Hamas.
According to a media outlet close to the Egyptian security apparatus, “a police officer fired his personal weapon blindly at a group of Israeli tourists in Alexandria (north).”
The police officer who fired the shots was arrested.
The ministry now says it is working to repatriate the rest of the group of tourists, while many Israelis regularly go to Egypt, particularly on the occasion of Jewish religious holidays, such as Sukkot, celebrated in early October.
After the incident, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and authorities from both countries rushed to reaffirm their cooperation.
An essential mediator in each new outbreak of violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Egypt was the first Arab country to normalize its relations with Israel, in 1979.
If the governments made peace, at the time to the great dismay of other Arab states, in the Egyptian street, Israel remains a sworn enemy.
In exchange for normalization, Cairo had recovered the Sinai Peninsula, occupied by Israel since the Arab defeat of 1967.
The peace agreement followed the October 1973 war, considered a great “victory” in Egypt.
Hamas launched its unprecedented offensive against Israel on Saturday, 50 years almost to the day after the 1973 war.
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