“Israeli hands are drenched in the blood of Egyptian soldiers”

[sonz]

By: Adam Robertson

When the Egyptian Foreign Ministry demanded Israel three years ago to pay compensations for Egypt for the murdering of 250 Egyptian prisoners of war who were killed by Israel’s Sayeret Shaked special forces in 1967, Labor member of Knesset, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, denied the accusations, claiming that those soldiers were killed in combat and that they “were Palestinian fighters and not Egyptian soldiers”.

The incident and Israel’s denial and refusal to pay the compensation resulted in a diplomatic crisis that strained the relations between Israel and Egypt .

And a few days ago, Egypt summoned Israel's envoy to Cairo following the release of a shocking documentary that was aired on Israel’s TV Channel one, showing that an elite unit of the Israeli army, commanded by Benjamin Ben Eliezer, who denied the accusations three years ago, executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers after they surrendered to the Israeli army at the end of the 1967 Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, following three weeks of tension which began on May 15, and reached its peak of continued deterioration in the relations between Israel and its neighbors.

But Former Meretz party leader in Israel, Yossi Sarid said in an interview with the Egyptian daily, Al Ahram that “the killing of those captive soldiers in the Six Day War was a war crime”.

However he tried to play down the significance of the documentary, alleging that “war crimes in the area are numerous”.

Unfortunately the disgraceful documentary received the needed coverage only from the Egyptian press, while it only occupied a few headlines in Western and Israeli media.

And as expected there was no international outcry over the brutal assassination of unarmed prisoners of war by the Israeli forces.

Edward Rali, head of the Egyptian parliament's Committee for Human Rights called for launching a probe into the murdering of 250 Egyptian prisoners by Israeli Special Forces in 1967, saying that the crimes showed in the documentary released by the Israeli television, "represent a serious violation of human rights and international law," The Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying.

Foreign Affairs Committee head Mustafa al-Faki, denounced the "massacre of helpless Egyptian soldiers," stressing that "Israeli hands are drenched in the blood of Egyptian prisoners," the Post reported.

Despite being accused repetitively of committing war crimes in Lebanon and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel never received the condemnation or the punishment it deserves from the United Nations or the International Community.

The Israeli Army has been accused of committing numerous violations whether in Lebanon or occupied Palestine, crimes that ranged from unlawful killings, to torture, extensive and wanton destruction of property, and obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel, among many others.

In its recent offensive in Lebanon, Israel was accused of intentionally bombing civilian areas which resulted in the death of over 1,400 civilians, many of them children and women.

And in Palestine, recent accusations against the Israeli army included the use of Palestinians as "human shields" during military operations, "forcing them to carry out tasks that endangered their lives", despite an injunction by Israel's high court banning the practice, that was stated by Amnesty International, a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

What’s been uncovered in “Ruah Shaked” is definitely not the first Israeli crime and violations of international law and human rights, and probably won’t be the last.

[SATalha]

This does not surprise me at all. What would you expect from a criminaly minded state? I just prey for those Brothers that where killed. Isreal is known for this kind of actions Hamas movement went through this in its early years. Inshallah they will recieve some form of punishment from the U.N.....what did i just say that....yeah right punishment from the UN.

[SATalha]

Trust me bro there experts at it :raging:

[SATalha]

Check this link out and read about that.....I aint gonna say it anywho his name is Arial Sharon....anyone heard of him

http://www.aqsa.org.uk/leafletsdetails.aspx?id=37

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[mahdisoldier19]

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[Akil]

Either way, Israel and Egypt are both US allies and nothing will ever happen between them again. I was apart of the Multinational Force and Observers stationed in the Sinai Peninsula in 2005, our job was to observe and report violations of the treaty of peace between Israel and Egypt (the Camp David Accords of 1982 I think), and all throughout 2005 we did not come upon a single treaty violation (we thought we had one day, but it turned out to be a US jet).

[Keltoi]

Either way, Israel and Egypt are both US allies and nothing will ever happen between them again. I was apart of the Multinational Force and Observers stationed in the Sinai Peninsula in 2005, our job was to observe and report violations of the treaty of peace between Israel and Egypt (the Camp David Accords of 1982 I think), and all throughout 2005 we did not come upon a single treaty violation (we thought we had one day, but it turned out to be a US jet).

One of the only things Jimmy Carter got right.

[KAding]

An update...

Sinai war film maker admits error

An Israeli documentary maker whose film provoked a diplomatic row with Egypt has admitted he misidentified Palestinian war dead as Egyptians.

Ron Edelist told Jerusalem Post about his erroneous identification of 250 fighters killed in action by a crack Israeli unit during the 1967 war.

After the film aired last week, Israel strongly denied the dead had been Egyptian POWs executed by its forces.

An Israeli cabinet member who led the unit postponed a trip to Egypt.

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel's infrastructure minister, had been due in Cairo to discuss natural gas imports.

The film, Spirit of Shaked, describes how soldiers pursued an "Egyptian commando" unit, 250 of whose fighters were killed in the ensuing battle.

Mr Edelist admitted is reported to have admitted to the Post that he subsequently received documents showing that the commando unit - while technically under the auspices of the Egyptian army - were actually Palestinians.

Mr Edelist insists he does not believe the mistake has detracted from the film's overall message, which he said was meant to show that the unit did not use excessive force in its missions.

He acknowledged in the Jerusalem Post he had made a further mistake in using incorrect archival footage to illustrate the incident.

Arrest threat

Last week Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who takes a lead role in Egypt's negotiations with Israel, reportedly told Mr Ben-Eliezer not to come because he could be arrested.

Egyptian media reported that the film alleged Egyptian POWs were executed by Israeli forces.

The affair has dominated Egyptian headlines and sparked an angry debate in parliament. The foreign ministry summoned Israel's ambassador in Cairo for an explanation.

Israel captured the arid Sinai peninsula from Egypt in the Six Day war of 1967, with Egypt counterattacking in the 1973 war. The two sides signed a peace treaty in 1979 and Sinai was returned to Egypt.

Claims that Israeli troops massacred about 1,000 Egyptian POWs in several incidents in 1967 were first raised in 1995 by Israeli military researcher Aryeh Yitzhaki.

The government denied systematically killing POWs at the end of the war, but the story soured relations between Israel and Egypt for months.

At the time Mr Ben-Eliezer said he was not aware of any POW killings by his troops.
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