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2023-06-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Egyptian cop who killed IDF troops is named, said to have griped about border duty
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Definitely Sudden Jihad Syndrome by a Gaza-lover. [IsraelTimes] Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, 22, from Cairo, walked five kilometers from his guard post in Egypt and climbed up a cliff to reach the emergency gate into Israel carrying combat knives, food, a Koran, and magazines for his assault rifle.
And nobody in his command noticed he was missing? An Egyptian policeman accused of killing three Israeli soldiers in an attack on the border on Saturday morning was named Monday as Mohammed Salah Ibrahim, 22, from Cairo. According to Arabic-language media reports, Ibrahim was drafted into the Egyptian army in June 2022 and stationed on the Israel border as a policeman. He was reportedly set to end his service in the near future.
and he did
Egyptian reports cited by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster said Ibrahim had complained several times about his military service, including recently, and had gone absent without leave for 18 days at one point. The reports said Ibrahim had suffered mental distress following the death of a comrade and felt the issue had not been taken seriously. One of Ibrahim’s friends claimed he was trying to get a medical exemption from his service due to physical problems, according to the reports cited by Kan.
| After his death in a shootout with IDF soldiers, Ibrahim was found to be carrying two combat knives — which he had used to breach the barrier — as well as food, a Koran, and six magazines for his assault rifle, indicating he had planned a larger attack. |
Ibrahim is believed by the Israel Defense Forces to have acted alone in the deadly attack on Saturday. Egypt has sought to distance itself from the policeman, with Egyptian officials saying they had been unaware of his intentions, according to Kan.
The IDF and the Egyptian army were jointly probing the attacker’s motives. Egyptian defense officials visited the scene of the attack on Saturday afternoon and met with senior IDF officials, the military said.
After his death in a shootout with IDF soldiers, Ibrahim was found to be carrying two combat knives — which he had used to breach the barrier — as well as food, a Koran, and six magazines for his assault rifle, indicating he had planned a larger attack.
Hebrew-language media claimed the copy of the Koran indicated Ibrahim’s possible religious extremism.
According to the Egyptian reports, one of Ibrahim’s friends raised the possibility that Salah had wanted to avenge the death of his comrade.
By killing lotsa Joooos. During the May 2021 conflict between Israel and the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, Ibrahim expressed solidarity with the Paleostinians on Facebook, writing in a post: "Allah stands with Paleostine," with a hashtag reading: "#GazaUnderAttack."
Israel handed over Ibrahim’s body to Egypt for burial on Monday, according to Hebrew media.
Staff Sgt. Ori Yitzhak Iluz, 20, Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan, 20, and Sgt. Lia Ben Nun, 19, killed by Ibrahim on Saturday, were buried Sunday at military cemeteries in their hometowns. The three were combat soldiers in the mixed-gender light infantry Bardelas and Caracal battalions, tasked with guarding the border.
According to the IDF’s initial probe, the Egyptian policeman infiltrated through the border through an emergency gate early Saturday morning.
The small gate — held shut with just zip ties —
*Boggle* is used by the IDF to cross the border when necessary, in coordination with the Egyptian army. The Egyptian army has claimed Ibrahim crossed the border to chase after suspects in a drug smuggling incident.
Ibrahim walked some five kilometers (3 miles) from his guard post in Egypt and climbed up a cliff to reach the emergency gate, which indicated his knowledge of the area and the security barrier. He cut through the zip ties with a combat knife, opened the small entrance to Israel, and walked around 150 meters to the guard post where Iluz and Ben Nun were.
Not even close to the actions of a minor military policeman accidentally mistaking IDF troops for the cross-border smugglers he was supposedly chasing. Ben Nun and Iluz had begun a 12-hour shift together at 9 p.m. on Friday night at the military post on the Egyptian border. At around 2:30 a.m., troops foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs over the border, around three kilometers (1.8 miles) north of Ben Nun and Iluz’s position, seizing contraband with an estimated value of NIS 1.5 million ($400,000).
At 3 a.m., the smuggling incident was wrapped up; and at 4:15 a.m., troops radioed in to the guard post where Ben Nun and Iluz were located, who responded that everything was okay.
There are frequent attempts to smuggle drugs from Egypt into Israel. Egyptian smugglers generally operate by tossing contraband over the border to Bedouin Israelis, who then sell the drugs in Israel. The smugglers mostly traffic in marijuana from grow houses in the Sinai Peninsula, but sometimes harder drugs like heroin are smuggled in as well.
The Egyptian policeman was believed to have snuck up to the guard post and opened fire sometime between 6 and 7 a.m., killing Ben Nun and Iluz. After the soldiers did not answer calls on the radio on Saturday morning, shortly before their shift was set to end at 9 a.m., an officer went to the scene and discovered the pair dead near the post.
The pair had not fired their weapons, according to the IDF’s investigation, indicating that they were caught completely by surprise by the attacker. The military was looking into the possibility that they had fallen asleep or were otherwise not paying attention to the border.
The IDF was probing why there was no alert following the policeman’s infiltration into Israel and examining the security arrangements surrounding the various small gates in the fence, as well as why Israeli commanders were unaware two soldiers had been killed for at least two hours.
After the officer discovered Ben Nun and Iluz’s bodies at around 9 a.m., military officials declared a terror incident in the area and began searches.
Shortly after 11 a.m., an army drone identified the attacker hiding behind a rock formation some 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the border.
The attacker shot up a group of soldiers approaching the area — some 200 meters away — fatally hitting Dahan. Several minutes later, another group of soldiers closed in on the Egyptian, killing him. One non-commissioned officer was lightly maimed in the second clash, which occurred before noon.
Top political and military leaders have stressed the shootings were not a reflection of the ties between the countries, which have grown increasingly close on security matters since their 1979 peace treaty formally ended decades of armed enmity between them.
The IDF said the Egyptian army was fully cooperating with the investigation.
IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Sunday appointed Maj. Gen. Nimrod Aloni to lead an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the attack, with a focus on the "systemic" failures and the "perception of defense of peaceful borders."
The Egyptian take on events: Egypt, Israel agree to increase surveillance towers on borders: Sources to Al-Arabiya
[AlAhram] Egypt and Israel have agreed to increase surveillance cameras and towers on the border, Saudi TV channel al-Arabiya reported on Sunday, citing sources.
One Egyptian border security personnel and three members of the Israeli forces responsible for border security were killed in the early hours of Saturday. The incident also left two other Israeli soldiers injured.
It all started when an Egyptian border security personnel, chasing drug smugglers, crossed the border between Egypt and Israel, only to be killed in the ensuing crossfire, according to a statement by the Spokesman of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Gharib Abdel-Hafez Gharib, on Saturday evening.
Gharib noted that operations to search and secure the area have not ceased and that all the legal proceedings relevant to the incident were being taken.
In a phone call, Egypt’s Minister of Defence and Military Production, General Mohammed Zaki, discussed Saturday the circumstances that led to the incident with Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant.
The two ministers also discussed coordination to prevent such incidents from recurring in the future, according to the Egyptian military front man.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the aftermath of the slaying of three Israel Defense forces soldiers by an Egyptian policeman who crossed the border.
According to a readout from the Prime Minister’s Office, Sissi expressed his “deep condolences” over the attack and committed to a “joint and exhaustive investigation.”
However, a spokesman for the Egyptian presidential palace did not mention an expression of condolences, instead simply saying that the conversation “addressed the shooting incident at the Egyptian-Israel border on Saturday, June 3, 2023, that led to the deaths of border security personnel.”
The spokesperson, Ahmed Fahmy, also noted that the phone call was initiated by Netanyahu.
“The president and prime minister of Israel have affirmed the importance of full coordination to uncover all the circumstances of the incident,” he added in a brief statement.
Both sides affirmed their commitment to upholding the two countries’ peace treaty and security coordination. 
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