CAIRO (PIC)– Israeli infrastructure minister Binyamin Ben-Aliezer has decided Monday to postpone his scheduled visit to the Egyptian capital Cairo at the backdrop of Hebrew media revelations affirming that he was responsible for slaughtering 250 Egyptian POWs during the 1967 war.
According to Hebrew media reports Ben-Aliezer took the decision in coordination with the Egyptian authorities to allow reverberations of the news to die out. Israeli official TV aired a documentary film showing the killing of the 250 captives in cold blood.
The IOF battalion that committed the carnage was reportedly under Ben-Aliezer’s command at that time.
The Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper unveiled that Egypt’s chief of intelligence Omar Suleiman advised the Israeli minister to adjourn the visit on fears he might be arrested in Egypt over the allegations.
Other lawmakers urged their government to freeze gas sales to Israel to kick out the Israeli envoy to sever diplomatic ties with the Hebrew state and to annul commercial agreements.
“Blood of our soldiers couldn’t be undermined as we shall punish and prosecute those ugly-faced criminals” said head of the Arab affairs’ committee in the legislature Saad Al-Jammal.
Although Ben-Aliezer tried to pacify the Egyptian public by alleging that the massacred soldiers were Palestinians the deputies didn’t buy his allegations affirming that Egyptian and Palestinian blood is one.
