Egypt: Two Bedouins injured while trying to sneak to Israel

Egyptian border sources said yesterday that two Bedouins were strongly wounded in a fire exchange with the Egyptian police on the border with Israel on Wednesday evening while trying to sneak to Israel on the back of a camel.

The sources added that the two Bedouins Easmi Eid Ahmad Jum'a ( 24 year old) from Rafah in Egypt and Salem Hussein Suleiman ( 24 year old) from al-Barath area in Rafah were trying to sneak to Israel through the area situation between the two markers 14 and 15 to the south of Rafah when an Egyptian patrol tried to stop them. The sources continued that the two men exchanged fire with the police.

The Israeli authorities returned back to Egypt during the past months several Bedouins including drug traders who sneaked to it.