Egyptian border guards have been injured by fragments from an Israeli tank spherical that struck one in every of their watchtowers amid Israel’s ongoing conflict with Hamas.
The incident occurred on Sunday on the Egyptian border station close to Kerem Shalom, the place the borders of Israel, the Gaza Strip and Egypt come collectively. Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez Gharib described the accidents as “minor” and didn’t disclose what number of border guards had been wounded by the shell fragments.
“The Israeli facet expressed its remorse over the unintentional incident instantly,” Gharib stated in a press release. “It occurred, and the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.”
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) issued a press release earlier on Sunday, expressing “sorrow relating to the incident.” The tank “by accident fired and hit an Egyptian put up” within the border space, and the incident is underneath investigation, in accordance with the assertion.
The mishap occurred the day after Egypt opened its border crossing with Gaza to permit humanitarian support to be transported to the besieged Palestinians. Simply 20 of the roughly 200 support vans that had been ready for days to get into Gaza had been reportedly allowed to enter the territory on Saturday. A second convoy, consisting of 14 vans, handed by means of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza on Sunday.
The IDF continued to hold out airstrikes in opposition to Hamas targets in Gaza in preparation for a deliberate floor offensive in response to the Islamist group’s shock assaults in opposition to Israel earlier this month. Over 4,700 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have been killed for the reason that battle started on October 7.
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