The Truth Behind the Circulated Image: The Story of the Martyred Egyptian Soldier

Al-Marsad Newspaper: The Sinai Tribes Union revealed the story of the Egyptian soldier, whose image was circulated widely and was said to be the perpetrator of the “border incident” with Egypt and Israel.

And the Sinai Tribes Union confirmed in a post on Twitter that everything that was published about the soldier in the photo has nothing to do with reality, indicating that the photo belongs to the Egyptian soldier Muhammad al-Moataz Rashad, who was martyred on January 31, 2016 in Rafah, North Sinai, after an explosive device exploded in the tank he was in.

The Sinai Tribes Union indicated that Muhammad Rashad had hidden from his father the news of his presence in Rafah for fear of anxiety, and he was martyred in an armored vehicle explosion in Arish following one of the clashes with terrorists, and left a will for his father to receive it after his martyrdom.

The Sinai Tribes Union stated that Muhammad was injured in the explosion, and he was transferred to the Armed Forces Hospital in North Sinai, and a surgical operation was performed on him, but the seriousness of his condition led to his transfer to the Maadi Military Hospital, but the surprise occurred at that moment when the doctor, Brigadier General Al-Moataz Rashad, was surprised. , who leads the medical team, that the injured person who came in a critical condition after his injury in Sinai, is his son Muhammad, to try hard to help him with his colleagues, except that he breathed his last in his father’s hands.