The bodies of six Israel soldiers killed in an airplane crash off the Palestine coast last Monday, have been turned over to Israel authorities by Egyptian soldiers after being washed ashore just south of the domarcation line inside Egyptian-controlled territory near Gaza. A soarch is continuing for the bodies of two Israel soldiers still missing in the crash.
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