Egypt pardons Palestinians in Rafah incident

Egypt said it granted amnesty to Palestinians who were arrested during Rafah crossing incident, where Palestinian gunmen broke into the border area and shot two Egyptian soldiers.

"the Palestinians who were interrogated on charges of infiltrating into Egypt were pardoned for humanitarian reasons," the government noted, and "to boost Egyptian-Palestinian relations and comes in sympathy with the hardships gripping the Palestinian people."

The government noted "As many as 117 Palestinians had interrogated and some of them released since the break out of Rafah incidents when Palestinian armed men broke part of the walls of the checkpoint and opened fire indiscriminately killing two Egyptian soldiers and injuring several others."