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"Egyptian Prisoners" in Film Controversy Were Palestinian Fedayeen
[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff - Ran Edelist, the director of the documentary film about the Shaked Reconnaissance Unit which has provoked a diplomatic uproar between Israel and Egypt, admitted Thursday that he had erroneously described 250 Palestinian fedayeen killed by the unit at the end of the Six-Day War as Egyptians. That error, it appears, is at the root of a wave of Egyptian allegations that Israelis killed Egyptian POWs. The unit in question - while technically under the auspices of the Egyptian army - was made up of Palestinian fedayeen terrorists. Former unit commander and current Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has already released a statement insisting that the incident involved Palestinian fedayeen, and that they were killed in battle and not after being taken prisoner.