Shooting near Rafah border crossing kills member of Egyptian security forces
A member of the Egyptian security forces was killed near the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip and an investigation is ongoing, an Egyptian army spokesman said on Monday, after the Israeli army reported a shooting at the border .Al Qahera News, Egypt's state television station, quoted an anonymous, "well-informed" security official as saying that there appeared to have been an exchange of gunfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters and that the battle that that followed resulted in the death of the soldier. The New York Times could not independently verify the circumstances of the shooting.The shooting reflects growing tension at the border since early May, when the southern Gaza city of Rafah became the hub of Israel's military campaign to defeat Hamas, an armed grou...