President of Ain Shams University honors the heroes of Eilat

Prof. Dr. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, pointed out that today we celebrate the anniversary of the victory of the October War, a victory that restored pride and dignity not only for Egypt but for the entire Arab world, and to break the legend of the invincible army. The October War taught various military colleges in the world.

In a gesture of appreciation from each of the captain Omar Izz al - Din and Captain Nabil Abdel Wahab, each listed footage mm championship of the other where the captain Major General A. H Omar Ezz El-Din expressed his happiness with his presence at Ain Shams University, which he had attended the Faculty of Engineering before he joined the Naval Academy,

He explained that the armed forces did not participate in the 1967 war, pointing out that there is a difference between the destruction of the destroyer Eilat and the destruction of the military pier of the port of Eilat and the process of dumping the destroyer Eilat

His Excellency pointed out that there were instructions of restraint, where the crew of the destroyer Eilat was repeatedly entering the territorial waters of the city of Port Said until Major General Mahmoud Fahmi asked the command to hit the destroyer more than once until the escort came from President Gamal Abdel Nasser, where Israel was listening on the Egyptian signals They were misled by those signals, which included instructions for restraint and non-firing, until the destroyer approached, a squadron of rocket launches was launched, the first rocket was fired and the destroyer was hit directly and then the strikes continued until the destroyer was flooded.

Regarding the operations carried out by human frogmen in the naval forces in destroying the military pier of Eilat, he added that the Eilat port was penetrated five times, including the destruction of the ships Beit Sheva and Bat Yam, the destruction of the pier of the port of Eilat.

The captain explained that all branches of the armed forces had participated in the war of attrition until the war of October, stressing that General. Mahmoud Fahmi, commander of the naval forces at the time, had used all possible means to inflict the enemy the greatest losses, pointing out that he had used human frogs differently in either Eilat or Digger operation, when the enemy tried to infiltrate the port of Alexandria where they were fully captured.

He explained that when the Egyptian penetration of the port of Eilat was interrogated to Moshe Dayan even that he issued several decisions, including the work of underwater nets in front of the port, not to sell the ships in the port, but the port was penetrated and destroyed the port and ships.

The film is the first film of the Egyptian army depicting a naval operation, where she interviewed the heroes of the operation as well as visiting places of filming. The film's first screening was at the Cairo Film Festival and then screened in Egypt and six Arab countries simultaneously.

For his part, the artist Dr. Hani Kamal sent several messages to students, including the importance of one's work to be proud of, especially when you embody these heroes, also called on young people not to surrender to the battle of consciousness, which is currently being run on the youth of Egypt, a war of the fourth and fifth generation, explaining that the war is now a war of a different kind aimed at young people to destroy their country.

The seminar witnessed the presentation of a documentary film about the destroyer Eilat, and the students gave some national poems

At the end of the symposium, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini honored the heroes of Eilat and artists.