Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 Mideast war, deaths that commanders who are now prominent leaders have known about for years, historians said Wednesday.
Bar-Zohar later told Israel TV such killings occurred ″in all of Israel’s wars″ and that the ″incidents were treated forgivingly″ by leaders.
Military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israeli troops carried out several mass killings in 1967 in which some 1,000 Egyptian prisoners were killed in the Sinai.
Yitzhaki said a report on the killings submitted to his superiors has been locked away in a safe at military headquarters.
Another Israeli historian, Uri Milstein, said there were many incidents in the 1967 war in which Egyptian soldiers were killed by Israeli troops after they had raised hands in surrender.
`It was not an official policy, but there was an atmosphere that it was OK to do it,″ said Milstein, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. ``Some commanders decided to do it, others refused. But everyone knew about it.″
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