Gazan breached border fence for moshav attack
The Gaza Palestinian who stabbed a woman in an Israeli farming town near the Egyptian border had breached an unguarded border fence.
The Gaza Palestinian who stabbed a woman in an Israeli farming town near the Egyptian border had breached an unguarded border fence.
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 Islamists to death for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, showing Egypt\’s determination to put down militancy in a region critical to relations with neighboring Israel.
One Israeli soldier and three armed assailants have died in a skirmish near the border with Egypt.
Israel said it will allow two female African migrants — one who is pregnant — and a teen to enter the country, and turn over more than a dozen other refugees who have been trapped at its border to Egyptian authorities.
A group of African migrants remain trapped at the border with Egypt after Israel\’s Supreme Court decided to hold another hearing next week on their situation.
Egypt\’s military is deploying light armored vehicles in Sinai to replace some heavy tanks whose presence at the border area had raised concerns in Israel, security sources said on Tuesday.A source said last week the army had begun withdrawing some of the tanks, after they had been deployed as part of an operation against militants who attacked and killed 16 border guards on August 5.
Egypt\’s military said on Wednesday it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Egypt\’s foreign minister to keep lines of communication open with Israel amid tensions over an Egyptian push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, the State Department said on Thursday.
Israel is concerned about the deployment of Egyptian armor in a push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, saying the vehicles\’ entry wasn\’t coordinated and is in violation of a 1979 peace treaty, an Israeli official said on Monday.
Following unrest in the Sinai including a terrorist attack that killed 16 soldiers, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi \”is interested in amending\” the country\’s 1979 Camp David Accords with Israel \”with regards to the deployment of forces in Sinai,\” said his judicial adviser, Mohamed Gaddalah, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri Al-Youm reported.