Egypt reportedly wants Israel to pay compensation for its forces’ execution of captured Egyptian soldiers. The London-based Arabic newspaper A-Sharq Al-Awsat said Monday that Egypt had formally requested that Israel set up a military inquest into “crimes by Israeli soldiers against Egyptian prisoners” during the 1956 and 1967 wars.
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