Cheetah fighter Lia Ben Nun and fighter Ohad Dahan of the Caracal Battalion were killed Saturday by Egyptian policeman fire near the border with Egypt. Another IDF soldier was killed in the unusual incident, his name has not yet been released.
Ben-Nun was believed to have been killed at 6:30 a.m. after a night in which a drug smuggling area from Egypt was thwarted. The IDF confirmed that the terrorist killed was an Egyptian policeman who killed the three fighters.