Two Egyptian infiltrators were killed today in an encounter with an Israel patrol well inside Israel territory, according to an Israel Army spokesman.
The spokesman said that the clash occurred some three and a half kilometers inside Israel, in the Halutzah sand-dune area. The infiltrators were killed in an exchange of gunfire.
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