CAIRO, March 10, 2007 (AFP) - The nephew of assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat on Saturday called for a review of the peace treaty his uncle signed with Israel after allegations that Egyptian PoWs were killed four decades ago.

"The peace agreement Egypt signed with Israel is not a 'Koran' and everything is open to being amended for the benefit of future generations," parliamentarian Anwar Esmat Sadat said during a debate in parliament.

Claims in an Israeli documentary aired last week that an elite Israeli unit led by a current cabinet minister killed hundreds of Egyptian PoWs in cold blood during the 1967 Six Day War raised a furore in Egypt.

During the angry parliamentary debate Sadat presented a request signed by 20 deputies calling for the freezing of gas, steel and cement exports to Israel, as well as an end to the "QIZ" economic agreement that allows duty-free access to the US for jointly produced products.

"If Sadat were alive today he would not accept Israel's behaviour," Anwar Esmat Sadat added, suggesting that the landmark 1979 peace agreement was concluded because Egypt was suffering from economic problems and could not continue fighting.

Sadat also called for a commission to be set up to win over world opinion over Israeli crimes.

Deputies from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood bloc also attacked Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit for reportedly saying that Egypt would not cut ties with Israel "over a film."

"The statements by Abul Gheit are humiliating to all Egyptians," said Hussein Ibrahim, vice president of the Brotherhood bloc.

MP Sayyed Askar, also from the Brotherhood, called for the publication of a blacklist of businessmen who deal with Israel, saying that there could be no peace with the "grandsons of apes and pigs."

Abul Gheit told journalists on Saturday that he had never made the comment about the film, but that the Egyptian government was following the matter closely and awaiting the results of Israeli investigations.

"We have constantly followed and analysed information about this matter since it first surfaced in 1995," he said.

On Friday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the director of the documentary had admitted that those killed were actually Palestinian fighters, rather than Egyptians, backing up assertions by former unit leader and now cabinet national infrastructure minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer.

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