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Report: 7 killed, including 5 Americans, in a military helicopter crash in Sinai - Walla! news

2020-11-12T13:26:50.399Z


An Israeli source told AFP that in addition to the Americans, civilians from France and the Czech Republic who were part of the international peacekeeping force were killed. Israel offered assistance, the United States refused. The circumstances of the crash are unknown. In recent years, the Egyptian army has been fighting the ISIS branch in Sinai.


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Report: 7 killed, including 5 Americans, in a military helicopter crash in Sinai

An Israeli source told AFP that in addition to the Americans, civilians from France and the Czech Republic who were part of the international peacekeeping force were killed.

Israel offered assistance, the United States refused. The circumstances of the crash are unknown. In recent years, the Egyptian army has been fighting the ISIS branch in Sinai.

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In the video: The latest voice message of an Egyptian commando battalion fighting ISIS in Sinai (Editing: Amit Simcha)

Seven people were killed today (Thursday) in a helicopter crash in the Sinai Peninsula, an Israeli source told AFP.

According to him, the dead - five Americans, a Frenchman and a Czech - are part of the international peacekeeping force stationed on the peninsula since the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement.

A military source told Walla!

NEWS that the IDF offered assistance to the United States military, but it refused.



The reason for the helicopter crash is not clear at this time. .



contributed to this report Amir Bohbot

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