{"id":12135,"date":"2023-10-08T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/two-israeli-tourists-one-egyptian-killed-in-alexandria-shooting-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:36:09","slug":"two-israeli-tourists-one-egyptian-killed-in-alexandria-shooting-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/two-israeli-tourists-one-egyptian-killed-in-alexandria-shooting-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Israeli tourists, one Egyptian killed in Alexandria shooting | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Israeli tourists and one Egyptian were killed Sunday by a policeman in Egypt, local media and Israeli authorities said, as war rages for a second day between the neighbouring country and Hamas.<\/p>\n

The policeman fired “at random” at an Israeli tour group visiting Alexandria using “his personal weapon”, the state-affiliated private television Extra News said quoting a security source.<\/p>\n

A fourth person was wounded and the policeman was “immediately arrested”, it added.<\/p>\n

The Israeli foreign ministry confirmed the deaths in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This morning during a visit of Israeli tourists in Alexandria, Egypt, a local opened fire at them, murdering two Israeli citizens and their Egyptian guide,” it reads.<\/p>\n

“In addition, there is a wounded Israeli in moderate condition.”<\/p>\n

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The deaths come as fighting rages after Palestinian militants on Saturday launched a multi-pronged attack on Israel, which has declared war on Hamas and launched air strikes on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Egypt was the first Arab country to forge a peace deal with Israel in 1979, and has long served as a key intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

However, despite the diplomatic relations, Israel remains largely unpopular among Egyptians.<\/p>\n

In June, three Israeli soldiers were killed in a firefight at the border with Egypt by a member of the Egyptian security forces who crossed the border “in pursuit of drug traffickers”, according to the Egyptian army.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned of a “vicious cycle of tensions threatening regional stability and security”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n