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Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/833362.html
Israel Refutes Claims It Killed Captured Egyptians in '67
[Ha'aretz] A scheduled visit to Egypt by Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer has been postponed amid a controversy over Egyptian media reports claiming that during the 1967 Six-Day War, troops of the Shaked commando unit, then led by Ben-Eliezer, killed 250 captured Egyptian soldiers at war's end. The Egyptian media were reporting on a documentary film about the Shaked unit by Israeli journalist Ron Edelist that aired on Israel Channel One television last week. Edelist said Monday that the media reports misrepresented the film, that the dead were not Egyptian POWs but Palestinian fedayoun fighters, and that they were killed in battle, not executed. According to Edelist, hardline opposition elements in Egypt had misrepresented the facts in order to attack Israel's peace with Egypt.