Two Israeli border police were lightly injured on Thursday in a friendly fire incident on the Egyptian-Israeli border when they were mistaken for drug smugglers. The Israeli army said that a huge drug-smuggling operation, involving at least nine attempts to move drugs across the border, took place on Israel’s frontier with Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Thursday night. An Israeli army spokesperson said that it was “one of the most active nights on the Egyptian border in recent memory”, according to The Times of Israel. The spokesperson added that the smuggling attempt – in which the two po…