Israel: The crash of the international observers' helicopter near "Beersheba" is not an act of terrorism
The Yediot Aharonot newspaper quoted an Israeli military source as saying that the helicopter that crashed Thursday evening in the Red Sea, near the city of Beersheba, was not subjected to a terrorist attack.
The newspaper confirmed that one of the injured in the accident was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in the city of "Beersheba", located by the Israeli Unit 699.
A delegate of the UN Multinational Observer Forces in Israel confirmed that it was an possible incident, without addressing new details.
News agencies reported that 7 international observers, of different nationalities, were killed in the crash of a helicopter belonging to the peacekeeping force in the Middle East, following a technical malfunction that led to its fall in the waters of the Red Sea.
And news agencies reported that the dead soldiers were five Americans, a French and a Czech.
