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After 44 years , ex-Israeli soldier : Egyptian officer saved my life
Ex-Israeli soldier Avi Aoury
A former IDF officer admitted that an officer in the Egyptian armed forces during the October 1973 war saved his life from death giving him food and drink.
In an article published in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, the Israeli officer, who was named "Avi Oory," recounted the story of his rescue by the Egyptian officer. He said that at the time of writing this article he did not know his name or any details about him to thank him.
(Avi Aoury after they being released by the Egyptian authority and sent back to israel)
The Israeli officer said that four days after the October war, specifically on October 10, 1973, when the Egyptian armed forces pounded the Israeli fortresses in the Sinai, where he served at a military point on the banks of the Suez channel, the site was exposed to the camp where he served for shelling in the first flights of the Egyptian air force , and everyone on the site to die, after a period of walking alone in the Sinai desert he was exposed to thirst and hunger and fatigue.
He explained as he was walking in the desert approached an Egyptian military jeep and had Egyptian soldiers. They got out of the car, lined up and pointed their weapons at him, but a moment before shooting at him, another jeep arrived with an Egyptian officer.
He says the officer approached from him and asked him not to move, he asked the Egyptian officer to drink water and ordered his soldiers giving him water when drinking all the water asked in Arabic: "And then?", the Egyptian officer asked the soldiers more water for the israeli soldier, and so Aoury's life was saved in the first time .
But suddenly bombing campaign began so the Egyptian officer and his driver to transfer Israeli officer and ran with the Egyptian soldiers, but the officer insisted to deliver the israeli to some cap in which Israeli prisoners assemble to save him from death for the second time.
He said in the Egyptian camp his eyes were covered and his hands were tied and transferred to an Egyptian military zone and interrogated, and had to prove that he is not a pilot recently landed but a medical officer then transferred to the Suez Canal area and from there passed itby boat, and when he tried to move from ship out The channel he fell into the water because of its weakness, and felt that he was about to drown, but suddenly felt some hands pull him, and was rescued from the channel, and his life was saved for the third time and then was handed over to Israel as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Egypt.
He concluded by saying that he did not know the officer who saved his life and why he made efforts to save him. He did not know anything about him. He said he was keen to record a short video in a short film telling the story of his life. An Arab prisoner in the hands of the Israeli army must be treated as a prisoner, demanding the treatment of prisoners such as the treatment of the Egyptian officer with him.
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