Ariel Sharon have apologised for Israeli soldiers attacking a six-member Egyptian border patrol at the Egyptian side of the border. They were all
wearing Egyptian army uniforms, and three of them got killed. A tank fired at them from less than 20 meters away.
From: Aljazeera.net: Israel apologises for Egyptian
deaths
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has offered his apologies to the Egyptian government after Israeli forces killed three soldiers on the Egyptian side of
the border. Speaking to President Husni Mubarak by telephone on Thursday, Sharon said no soldier would ever intend to fire into Egypt.
Egypt reacted by condemning and strongly protesting against the incident, calling it an "irresponsible" act along the Gaza-Egypt border. Husain Abd
al-Ghani said the tank was
less than 20 metres away from the patrol when it opened fire and that
all six men were in Egyptian army
uniform.
"The Egyptian foreign ministry has demanded an explanation and underlined the fact that the incident represents a grave violation of Egyptian-Israeli
peace agreements,"
The Egyptians are quite mad about this. I can perfectly understand why. What is going on? Do the Israelis want a war? The Egyptians are demanding an
explaination for this.
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[edit on 2004/11/19 by Hellmutt]
