The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced that it has assigned its embassy in Tel Aviv to demand that Israel open an investigation into historical facts in the 1967 war. The Israeli press reported the discovery of a mass grave of Egyptian soldiers believed to have been burned alive during the war.
In recent days, Israeli journalist Yossi Melman and the Israeli newspapers Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz said they had found that Egyptian soldiers were burned alive in the1967 war, were not reported killed, and were buried in an unmarked mass grave.