Israel says it will probe 1967 mass grave of Egyptian soldiers

A truck full of captured Egyptian soldiers meets a convoy of Israeli troops near El Arish, Egypt, during the 1967 war [File: Getty Images]

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has said his office would investigate reports of a mass grave in central Israel containing the bodies of Egyptian commandos who were killed during the 1967 Middle East war.

Lapid’s office said on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had brought up the issue in a call after two Israeli newspapers published witness accounts suggesting there was an unmarked grave near Latrun, an area between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv where Israel’s army fought the Egyptian soldiers decades ago.