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“We are actively investigating the incident involving one of our helicopters,” Brad Lynch, a senior forces official, told AFP without providing further details.
The multinational observer force is overseeing the implementation of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and has been in the Sinai since the early 1980s. Israel is one of the founding countries of this independent non-UN mission. The annexes to the 1979 peace treaty provide for the demilitarization of Sinai. Currently, the multinational force has over 1,100 soldiers of different nationalities deployed in the Egyptian Sinai, where various armed groups operate, including a local wing of the jihadist organization of the Islamic State (IS), Agerpres recalls.
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