Senior IDF officers meet Egyptian counterparts in Cairo to discuss deadly border shooting

Three senior Israel Defense Forces officers traveled to Cairo this morning to meet with Egyptian army officials as part of the investigation into a deadly attack on the border earlier this month.

The IDF says the chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, the head of the military’s international cooperation unit, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, and the head of Military Intelligence operations, Brig. Gen. “Gimmel” — who can only be identified by his first initial in Hebrew — met with the Egyptian army officers to continue the investigation.

In the attack on June 3, an Egyptian border policeman infiltrated into Israel and killed three soldiers — two at a guard post and one in an armed clash several hours later. The attacker was then shot dead.

The joint investigation between the IDF and the Egyptian army began several hours after the attack, after Egyptian defense officials toured the scene and met with Israeli officers.

“Both sides expressed their commitment to an in-depth investigation and reaching the truth,” the IDF says.