On Thursday night at Sinai killed a police officer and two privates, four others were injured. According to the Egyptian side, law enforcement officers were killed by gunfire from an Israeli helicopter, which pursued the militants near the border with Egypt. The minister said he ordered the Israeli army conducted an investigation jointly with the Egyptian side. Israel's actions are aimed at calming the burst on the diplomatic level of scandal after an incident at the border, said the agency. Moreover, Egyptian media reported that on Saturday, arrived in Cairo former Israeli ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen, tasked to resolve the acute crisis in relations between the two countries. On the last Thursday in southern Israel, a series of terrorist attacks. Israeli authorities have not ruled out the possibility of infiltration of extremists from the Gaza Strip through Egypt and the Egyptian authorities have accused of lack of border security. Over the past two days on the Egyptian-Israeli border in the Sinai peninsula killed six Egyptian soldiers, some wounded. Incident on the Egyptian-Israeli border triggered a wave of outrage in Egypt. Some political forces demanded to break off relations with Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador from Cairo. On Friday at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo held a protest demonstration. Thousands of Egyptians blocked the high-rise building in Cairo, where the Israeli diplomatic mission, and demand to lower the Israeli flag. Earlier media reports that Egypt intends to withdraw its ambassador from Israel, then the Egyptian authorities announced the decision to limit the head of Israel's calling a diplomatic mission in Cairo. Egyptian police and army stepped up security embassy, which already is under constant scrutiny of the security forces.
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