This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On November 26, 1990, an Egyptian border guard crossed into Israel and attacked several vehicles along the Highway 12 road.
[2] Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and wearing his Egyptian military uniform he shot at passing vehicles from his position in the ditch.
Following these killings two buses carrying civilian workers to a nearby military base at Uvda arrived on the scene.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens indirectly blamed Egypt for its loose control of the frontier.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid said "It is a very regrettable incident, and we are certainly against such kinds of acts, and we shall investigate this affair in detail."