Egypt asks Israel to probe alleged 1967 killings

Egypt called on Israel on Tuesday to investigate charges that Israeli troops led by Israel's current infrastructure minister may have killed Egyptian prisoners of war in 1967.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni promised to watch an Israeli documentary which Egyptian and Israeli media reports have said contained the charges, but said she understood that those killed had died in battle, and called on the two countries to put the past behind them.

Egyptians were outraged by the film, which according to Israeli media reports alleged that an army unit led by Israel's now infrastructure minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer may have killed 250 prisoners of war in Sinai rather than transferring them to POW camps.

In a meeting with Livni in Brussels, Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit called for Israel to conduct an inquiry and to report its findings to Egypt.