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Israeli man injured by gunfire near Egypt border

Xinhua, October 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

An Israeli man was wounded by gunfire near the border with Egypt on Tuesday afternoon, a spokesperson with the Israeli military said in a statement.

"Shots were heard adjacent to the Egyptian border," the statement read, adding that a man was injured.

Israeli media reported that militants, whose identity was not immediately clear, opened fire from Egypt's Sinai desert toward a group of Israeli workers who were carrying out maintenance work on the border fence near Mount Harif.

The man sustained serious injures and a military helicopter evacuated him to the Soroka hospital in Beersheba.

Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979. Ties between the countries have been strong throughout the past decades.

The border has been mostly calm, but in 2011, a Jihadi group attacked Israeli cars and a bus near Sinai, killing six Israeli civilians, an Israeli soldier, and five Egyptian soldiers. Endit