Sinai bus accident
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The 2006 Sinai bus accident took place on 23 August 2006 when 11 tourists from Israel to Sinai Peninsula were killed when a chartered bus was turned over and landed upside down between Nueba and Taba.
The Egyptian driver was convicted of negligence by an Egyptian court and sentenced to 1 year in prison. The Israelis, mostly Arab Israelis, publicly attacked the Egyptian government for not letting Israeli Medical forces arrive in time, even though Israel was willing to arrive quickly at the scene to help with the many badly injured, and that the Egyptian authorities were deliberately handing the driver a low sentence and treating the victim families in a deplorable way because they were from Israel. They said it's an unacceptable behaviour because there's Peace between Israel and Egypt and they shouldn't be treated so badly in the Egyptian eyes. The head of the local council of Kfar Menda, where 3 people have died in the crash, said that even the legal department of Egypt treats them as "non humans" because they're Israelis.
