Israeli and Egyptian forces exchanged fire near Rafah on Monday wherein an Egyptian soldier.
After the incident, IDF officials contacted Egyptian officials to cease the fire.
No Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident.The IDF said that the incident was under investigation and that a dialogue was occurring with the Egyptians.
The Israeli military said: “A few hours ago there was a shooting incident on the Egyptian border, the [incident] is under investigation, dialogue is taking place with the Egyptian side.”
Daily News Egypt, an independent English-language Egyptian newspaper, cited unnamed sources as saying Egyptian soldiers were “affected” by the Rafah massacre on Sunday, in which an Israeli bombing led to the killing of 45 Palestinians at a displacement camp.
The Rafah border crossing was seized by Israeli occupation forces earlier this month as the military expanded its ground invasion of Gaza into the southern city of Rafah.
The occupation of the crossing increased tensions between Egypt and ‘Israel’, threatening 45 years of peace between the two countries, which had previously fought four wars.
