The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevy, expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the ability of one Egyptian policeman to inflict casualties among his forces that could not confront him last Saturday, which led to the killing of 3 Israeli soldiers before the martyrdom of the policeman, Mohamed Salah.

During his visit to the operations headquarters of the "knockout punch" maneuvers on the northern front, Halevi described the operation as a very difficult incident, in which 3 soldiers were lost in front of a single human threat.

Halevy said, "We lost two soldiers, a female soldier, in an operational incident, in the face of one threat, and against one terrorist, who was an Egyptian policeman, and the results were certainly difficult."

He added, addressing his soldiers: "Our mission is to do everything so that this does not happen again.. We have to do everything, know how to plan and confront terrorism, and know how to do vigilance and caution."