Two attacks on Friday in Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, killed at least 33 Egyptian security personnel in some of the worst anti-state violence since former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last year.
- No new date for the negotiations was announced.
The ceasefire has been holding. An easing of frontier restrictions is crucial for reconstructing tens of thousands of homes in the Gaza Strip that were damaged or destroyed in the fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.
Israel wants security arrangements that will ensure such material is not used by Hamas to rebuild cross-border tunnels or to manufacture rockets, whose firing at southern Israel triggered the Israeli offensive.........................Reuters..............http://www.todayonline.com/world/egypt-after-sinai-attacks-postpones-talks-gazas-future?singlepage=true
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Attacks on Egyptian army posts in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday which killed at least 33 soldiers were the handiwork of Palestinian militants, a senior Egyptian official said on Saturday, stressing that the "only solution" to stop such assaults was a buffer zone between Sinai and the Gaza Strip....
ReplyDeleteNo group has claimed responsibility for Friday's strikes, but Maj. Gen. Sameeh Beshadi told Asharq Al-Awsat that there was “no doubt that Palestinian elements had taken part in the attacks." Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi also said Saturday, without elaborating, that "foreign forces" were responsible.
According to Beshadi, the militants, who infiltrated Sinai via tunnels linking the peninsula to the Gaza Strip, prepared the booby-trapped vehicle which was reportedly used to attack an army checkpoint near El Arish in northern Sinai................http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.622854
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