Egyptian graves discovered near Gaza airport

A Palestinian researcher said a collective cemetery for captured Egyptian soldiers who were killed by Israeli forces in the June 1967 war was recently found. The cemetery was discovered in El-Shoka region in Rafah near Gaza International Airport.

The researcher, Owah Ben Aiyah, said in a report published by the Palestinian New Life newspaper that the digging operations to link phone cables to the airport uncovered the graves and that and that some of the corpses were moved to another place near the road while the rest remained in the cemetery.