Hamas: Zionist Regime’s Burning Alive of Egypt Soldiers Shows Extent of Terrorism

Date: 13 July 2022 - 21:40

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GAZA STRIP (MEMO) – The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas has reacted to the revelation that the Zionist regime burnt alive Egyptian soldiers in 1967, saying that “this crime discloses the extent of the regime’s terrorism.”
In a statement, Hamas Spokesman Hazem Qasem said, “The disclosure of the Israeli crime of burning tens of Egyptian soldiers alive during the 1967 aggression discloses the extent of Israel’s terrorism and sadism which dominate Israel’s behavior in all of its wars.”
“The Israeli occupation army and Israeli settlers have not stopped carrying out crimes, using internationally-prohibited weapons and killing and burning civilians as happened in Gaza and the West Bank; the last such a crime was burning Palestinian boy Mohammad Abu Khdeir.”
Hamas spokesman stressed: “This aggression and terrorism [show]… the absurdity of attempts to merge the occupation into the region.”
On Friday, Israeli newspaper Haaretz and prominent journalist Yossi Melman revealed information about the regime’s crime of burning Egyptian soldiers alive near Al-Quds and burying them in an unmarked mass grave during the 1967 war.
Zionist prime minister Yair Lapid said his office would investigate reports of the mass grave in central parts of the occupied territories containing the bodies of Egyptian commandos.
Lapid’s office said that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had brought up the issue in a call after two Israeli newspapers published witness accounts.
According to the statement, Lapid directed his military secretary “to examine the issue in depth and to update Egyptian officials”.
Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a statement the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv had been assigned to communicate with the Zionist regime authorities to “clarify what is being circulated in the media, call for an investigation to verify the credibility of this information, and urgently inform the Egyptian authorities of the relevant details”.
According to the reports, about 80 Egyptian soldiers killed during the war were buried under what is now a tourist park.
The soldiers were reportedly killed on June 5, 1967, when fighting broke out between Zionist troops and a group of Egyptian soldiers in Kibbutz Nahshon, a settlement in the now illegally occupied West Bank.
After the troops were killed, Zionist regime authorities dug a 20-meter grave and buried the Egyptian soldiers’ bodies together, said the report.
Residents of the kibbutz attempted to speak out about the issue during the 1990s but were silenced by the regime’s army.
Known to the Arabs as the Naksa, meaning setback or defeat, the 1967 war saw the Zionist regime usurp the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Al-Quds, Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.