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On Tuesday morning, hundreds of Egyptians joined the funeral of an army soldier shot dead a day earlier in an exchange of fire between Egypt’s forces and Israeli troops on the border with the besieged Palestinian Rafah City, an incident marred by contradictory reports. Mourners were seen carrying the coffin of 22-year-old Abdullah Ramadan, wrapped in the Egyptian flag, joined by many others while chanting, “There is no God but God… God loves the martyr….God is great” in the Fayoum province, southwest of the capital, Cairo. Local news outlets reported that an Egyptian army major represented the…

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