official. he's been ordered to request a mental and official evaluation from the veterans administration. investigators did not identify the targeted senator my name. three israeli soldiers and an egyptian security officer are dead in a shooting incident and it happened saturday on the israeli side of the border. the israel defense forces say an egyptian police officer crossed the border and killed two israeli border guards, triggering a manhunt that left the attacker and another israeli soldier dead. egypt says that their officer crossed the border in pursuit of drug smugglers and was killed in an ensuing gunfight. now let's go to hadas joins that joins us live from jerusalem. and as we just outlined, there is still a lot of confusion as to exactly what happened here. can you walk us through it? >> a lot of confusion, because, paula, this is such an unusual incident. israel shares a very long border with egypt, along the sinai. and in recent years, it's been
>> reporter: all indications from officials both in egypt and israel is pointing to this being an isolated and very unusual incident, and we're getting a clear indication that neither side wants this to turn into or spiral into something bigger. they cooperate on security matters, especially on this stretch of the border preen israel and egypt along the sinai. there is a fair amount of drug and weapons smuggling there and there is cooperation between the two. and all signs, all messages we're getting from both sides is that they're cooperating on this investigation. it is a very unusual incident. something like this has not happened i would say in more than a decade. what happened is earlier this morning, in the early hours of this morning, when two israeli soldiers who were manning a watch spot along the border, when they did not respond to a check-in, that triggered other soldiers to come check on them and that's when they discovered that those two soldiers had actually been killed. an ensuing manhunt, that's when they engaged with this egyptian security officer, where the egyptian security officer as
diplomacy. and as you heard from secretary blinken in a speech he gave this week, the united states believes that any just peace may be based on some foundational principles. one of the principles is rooted in the united nations charter and it is the sovereignty and territorial integrity. and the countries that you described in your opening statement, whether it is india or turkey or indonesia or others, they have all spoken out about the need to protect the principle of sovereignty and brazil has voted for u.n. general assembly resolutions that uphold the territory. other countries have indicated both in public and in private that is the sinai kwon known of a settlement here. and so that is what we're driving for here. >> do you think that china now seeming to want to enter into the russian/ukraine negotiations, sending an envoy,
A rare gunfire incident on the Egyptian-Israeli border resulted in the death of an Egyptian officer and three Israeli soldiers, with two other Israeli soldiers injured. The gunfire, which occurred on the morning of 3 June, erupted when an Egyptian border officer pursued drug smugglers into Israeli territory, according to a media statement by the
A gunbattle involving an Egyptian border guard in southern Israel along the border left three Israeli soldiers and the Egyptian officer dead Saturday, officials said. It was a rare instance of deadly…
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the egyptians can play this critical role not only because it's important for their security in sinai and egypt, but they have relations with hamas, relations with power line islamic jihad and the united states. the egyptians are critical as are to some degree the cutterries, who are providing cash infusions to hamas in order to maintain civilian infrastructure and economic projects there. so there are stabilizing forces. it's just situation which the broader israeli/palestinian conflict shows virtually no chance of being resolved. gaza is an important piece of this and i'm afraid that sooner or later on the gaza front we are going to see this again. >> this specific ceasefire may hold. as you say, wash, rinse, repeat. aaron david miller, always good to have you. thank you so much. president zelenskyy meeting
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resigned yet. the journalists they're talking about the father and the son who are the publisher and the reporters of this newspaper. the curtain gazette news. it served a curtain county for 118 years. 30,000 people live in this county. and this was this weekend's paper that broke the story, the headline county of filming just a little windy here, but you'll see it on the top county officials discussed killing burying gazette reporters. it's quite chilling done. yeah the paper serving the community, but not the officials. thank you, gary tuckman. i appreciate it. in seattle, a synagogue vandalized with anti israel graffiti on sunday, just days before holocaust remembrance state temple dewhurst, sinai's rabbi believes the timing was not a coincidence. seattle police department released footage of the suspect spraying the anti semitic images on the synagogues walls and are now asking for the public's help trying to identify them. seattle's mayor tweeted we