Dozens of leftist activists demonstrated yesterday afternoon, in front of the old HQ of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in downtown Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, halting normalization with Tel Aviv and severing diplomatic ties, amid public anger over Israel’s killing of Egyptian POWs.
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Popular anger at Israel grows but state does not follow, say experts
From the Daily Star Egypt:
The temperature of Egypt’s cool peace with one-time adversary Israel appeared to be heading towards record lows this week, amid allegations that the Israeli military executed Egyptian prisoners of war near the Sinai city of Al Arish during the 1967 Six Day War.
The allegations were made in an Israeli documentary film titled “The Shaked Spirit,” aired last week on Israeli television. In it, the filmmakers examine the war-time role of that famed IDF unit, and alleged that under the command of current Israeli Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, the unit executed 250 unarmed POWs.