The Israeli armed forces announced that three of their soldiers were killed today near the border with Israel With Egypt the militant, who was an Egyptian police officer, and added that they were investigating the incident in full cooperation with the Egyptian military, while soldiers were conducting searches in the area to rule out the possibility of other attackers.

According to the Israeli military, the shooter was killed in the shootout.

In Cairo, two sources in the Egyptian security forces said that Egyptian and Israeli officials are in contact to coordinate an investigation into a border shooting incident between the two countries.

The Egyptian military said in a statement that three members of the Israeli security forces and one member of the Egyptian security forces were killed in a shootout that took place this morning.

The Israeli military had previously announced that two Israeli soldiers were shot dead by a gunman near the Egyptian border early this morning.

They added that the gunman and a third Israeli soldier were killed several hours later in a shootout on Israeli soil.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters, AFP.}