President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Thursday led a military funeral for Lieutenant General Ibrahim El-Oraby, former chief of staff of the armed forces, who died yesterday.
The funeral was attended by top officials including Minister of Defense Mohamed Ahmed Zaki, who along with the president, offered condolences to the family of the deceased.
The presidency mourned Ibrahim El-Oraby who was also a member of the Free Officers Movement and died on Wednesday at 88.
About his life
El-Oraby was an Egyptian Army Lieutenant General and the 13th and former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
He was a member of the Free Officers Movement as defined by the Egyptian revolution of 1952, which compelled King Farouk to abdicate the throne to his son King Ahmed Fouad II, until the announcement of the establishment of the Republic in 1953.
He began his military career at the end of the forties and witnessed all Arab-Israeli wars and all the political volatility that Egypt faced since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to the Yom Kippur War where he was one of its heroes.
He previously served as the 7th Chief of Operations of the Armed Forces. Prior to that, he served as Commander of the Second Field Army, as Commander of the 21st Armored Division, as Commander of the Arab Forces in Iraq, and as Commander of the Armored Corps in Yemen war.
As the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Orabi was formerly the second highest-ranking military officer in all of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
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