IDF memorial in Sinai
Sinai revolutionaries plan protest against Israel
Egyptian movement plans to paint colors of Egypt's flag over memorial for IDF soldiers
The Sinai Revolutionaries Movement is planning to paint the colors of the Egyptian flag over an IDF
memorial, spokesman Mohammed Hendy told the Palestinian Ma'an news agency on Sunday. The act of protest is set to take place on April 25, the day Egypt marks the liberation of the Sinai Peninsula.
The monument was created in memory of 10 Israeli soldiers killed in a helicopter crash when the Sinai was still under Israeli sovereignty. Egypt pledged to guard the memorial as part of the 1979 peace treaty.
Watch the memorial in Egypt
Hendy said that the Sinai Revolutionaries Movement had tried to destroy the monument several times, only to be stopped by Egyptian army forces guarding the site.
He noted that there is a cemetery of Egyptian soldiers in Beersheba which he claims the "Jews had destroyed."
The movement decided to cover the monument in the colors of the Egyptian flag in order to "render the site an Egyptian symbol and not an Israeli one, to honor the memory of the Egyptian troops and serve as a warning to anyone who wants to hurt Sinai."
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