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| July 3, 2013
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Egyptian Army Removed Egypt’s 1st Democratically Elected President

Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suspends constitution, appoints head of the constitutional court as interim head of state.

By REUTERS

Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi effectively declared the removal of elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a televised broadcast, flanked by military leaders, religious authorities and political figures on Wednesday.

Morsi supporters hold up his posters in Cairo, July 3- REUTERS

The head of Egypt’s armed forces issued a declaration suspending the constitution and appointing the head of the constitutional court as interim head of state.

Sisi called for presidential and parliamentary elections, a panel to review the constitution and a national reconciliation committee that would include youth movements.

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| June 28, 2013
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Egypt hurts Gaza’s tunnel smuggling operations curtailing taxes to Hamas

Egypt deploys security reinforcements & sets up roadblocks across the huge Sinai desert running from the Suez Canal east to the Gaza border, causing shortages in the Palestinian enclave and hurting smuggling taxes to Hamas’ leaders.

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An Egyptian security crackdown has severely disrupted smuggling to the neighboring Gaza Strip, causing a fuel shortage, doubling the price of building materials and shutting down some construction sites in the Hamas-ruled territory.

Tunnel smugglerEgypt’s military clamped down on the lawless Sinai Peninsula, which abuts Gaza, in the run-up to mass protests planned for Sunday by Egyptian opposition activists trying to force out the country’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2013
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A Jewish Family’s 21st Century Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, born in Egypt, didn’t know she was Jewish until she was 15 years old, when local Islamists forced her family to flee Egypt or die.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit, was born in Egypt not knowing she was Jewish until the age of 15. In an emotional interview published on the IDF website, Ovadia spoke about her childhood in Alexandria, the earthshaking event that changed her life, the discovery of her Jewish identity, and her immigration to Israel and integration into local society.

A Jewish Family's Emotional and Harrowing Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson Unit

 

Going by the name Roulin Abdullah throughout her childhood, Dina always felt that she belonged somewhere and to something else, but wasn’t quite sure what that was. Continue Reading »

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| May 18, 2013
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Egyptian Security keeps Gaza border closed

Egyptian Policeman say the crossing will remain closed until the 7 remaining kidnapped hostages that were taken by Islamic militants from the Sinai are freed.

They’re also demanding that the Interior Minister comes to listen to security concerns.

By REUTERS

 

 

CAIRO – Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said.

Palestinian baby sleeps next to his mother at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in Gaza, May 17, 2013

Palestinian baby sleeps next to his mother at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in Gaza, May 17, 2013 – Photo: REUTERS

The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Continue Reading »

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| May 18, 2013
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It’s no Secret. Even the Sinai Bedouin Say: It Was Better Under Israeli Rule

The Sinai Bedouin blame Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s interior ministry for the kidnappings in the region saying: ‘We’ve already paid a price for Israel returning the land.’

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Bedouin tribes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula implied on Thursday that they were better off living under Israeli rule and that they have been suffering since Israel withdrew from the region as part of the peace agreement with Egypt.

Desert tourism – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The residents of the Sinai spoke to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, after local tribesmen kidnapped seven Egyptian security personnel near the city of El-Arish.

The seven were kidnapped by an unknown group in north Sinai while en route to Cairo. Continue Reading »

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| May 17, 2013
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Egyptian security close Gaza border crossing

In response to the abduction of 7 members of the Egyptian security forces by Islamist gunmen, Egyptian police-officers lock & block the gates at the border crossing to Gaza.

In the meantime, hundreds of Palestinians are stranded on both sides.

By Reuters
 

 

Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said.

Egyptian soldiers standing guard - Reuters - August 10, 2012.

Egyptian soldiers standing guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border, to cross from the Sinai peninsula to Gaza, in August 2012. – Photo: Reuters

 

Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence. Continue Reading »

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| May 12, 2013
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11th Saudi Aid Convoy Enters the ‘Besieged’ Gaza Strip

In spite of claims by Hamas that Israel is keeping Gaza under “siege”, a Saudi convoy carrying medical aid arrives from Egypt.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Despite claims by Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers that Israel is keeping the region under “siege”, a convoy carrying medical aid from Saudi Arabia, the 11th one in recent weeks, arrived at the coastal enclave on Saturday.

Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi reports that the Saudi convoy includes 10 tons of medicines and medical equipment. It was transferred to the El-Arish airport in Egypt and from there was taken to Gaza in coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent in North Sinai and the Palestinian Authority’s Red Crescent. Continue Reading »

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| May 11, 2013
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Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood stages anti-Israel protest in Cairo

In 1st such rally by the Muslim Brotherhood, the party from which President Morsi hails, the Brotherhood protested Israeli air-strikes on Syria & the detention of a Muslim cleric.

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood staged an anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday, the first such protest by the main backers of President Mohammed Morsi since they rose to prominence in the wake of the country’s 2011 uprising.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. – Photo by AP

Emerging from weekly services at Al-Azhar mosque — the centuries-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning — demonstrators chanted “the people want the destruction of Israel” in protest of recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the detention of a Palestinian Muslim cleric. Continue Reading »

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| May 10, 2013
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Egypt’s Black Bloc Guard, the new anti-Muslim Brotherhood militia

Egypt’s Black Bloc Guard has become a band of modern-day Robin Hoods, defending the innocent against an increasingly tyrannical Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas regime.

By Ashraf Ramelah

 

Egypt’s Black Bloc grew out of a struggle for liberation from an authoritarian system, only after non-violent civil efforts had failed. Not to be confused with America’s Black Bloc, which is friend to likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Black Bloc is an enemy to their country’s new Islamist rulers and fights for democracy and legitimate government.

Egypt's New Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Militia

Egypt’s New Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Militia – Israel Today

Clad in black garb and ski masks, the faceless and nameless Black Bloc soldiers lock arms to create a human shield in defense of pro-freedom protesters — the Black Bloc’s number-one priority — in the streets and squares of Egypt. Continue Reading »

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| May 3, 2013
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Analysis: Egypt & Iran vie in power struggle over Gaza

While Tehran voices it’s dissatisfaction on the cease-fire between Hamas & Israel, Cairo is doing its utmost to maintain calm.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN


 

 

Egypt and Iran are locked in a power struggle over their influence and conflicting aims in the Gaza Strip, and Egypt appears to have the upper hand.

IDF soldier sits atop a tank just outside northern Gaza - Photo REUTERS-Amir Cohen

IDF soldier sits atop a tank just outside northern Gaza – Photo: REUTERS-Amir Cohen

While Tehran is dissatisfied with the relative durability of the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, and is pushing Palestinian armed factions to violate the truce, Cairo is doing its utmost to reinforce the calm, which it views as serving Egypt’s national interest.

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| April 23, 2013
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Egypt reports arresting Israeli spy ring in Sinai

 

 

9 Palestinians & Egyptians reportedly arrested for by Egypt by gathering intel on behalf of Israel in the Sinai Peninsula

Salafi leader in Gaza admits their rocket fire from Sinai into Eilat was meant to harm Hamas & the Egyptian gov’t.

By Daniel Siryoti & the Israel Hayom Staff

The spy ring allegedly consisted of both Egyptians and Palestinians, who allegedly gathered information on behalf of Israel.

Israel’s new border fence with Egypt – Photo: AFP

A total of nine spy suspects were reportedly arrested.

An Egyptian security official told local media that the alleged head of the spy ring, a resident of the Egyptian city of Rafah in northern Sinai, was arrested after a covert investigation.

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| April 14, 2013
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Turkey prevents NATO meeting with Israel

The Turkish daily Hurriyet reports suggestion to resume meetings between ministers from Israel and 6 Arab Mediterranean countries was blocked by Ankara & Cairo, who said ‘it’s not the right time’.

By Ynet

 

An initiative to bring Israel and six Arab countries’ ministers together under NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue group for the first time since 2008 has been nixed by Turkey and Egypt, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported Saturday.

Ankara and Cairo reportedly said “it was not the right time” for such a meeting.

“The general-secretary was planning to invite the foreign ministers of the Mediterranean Dialogue countries on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers meeting scheduled for April 23 but Turkey objected to the idea,” a Western diplomat told Hürriyet. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2013
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Egypt’s Religion Minister Wishes to Visit Israel After All the Jews are Dead

We hope that the words of the Prophet Muhammad will be fulfilled when the rocks & the trees will say: ‘Oh Muslim , oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’

By JTA

 

Egypt’s minister of religious endowments quoted an Islamic Sunni verse about killing Jews.

MEMRITVVideos screenshot

MEMRITVVideos screenshot

 

The interview with Talaat Mohamed Afifi Salem was aired last month on Sada Al-Balad TV on March 14, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

Asked by the interviewer whether he would “visit Israel with a Palestinian visa,” the minister said: “This is premature. Continue Reading »

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| March 31, 2013
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Hamas Chief in Cairo to Complain About ‘Israeli Truce Violations’

Ismail Haniya the leader of Hamas traveled to Cairo Saturday to complain about “Israeli violations” of truce following Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya traveled to Cairo on Saturday to discuss complaints of the terrorist movement regarding Israel’s compliance with the truce brokered by Egypt following November’s Operation Pillar of Defense.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya - Photo AFP

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya – Photo AFP

Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said Haniya would be discussing “Israeli violations of the truce,” the AFP news agency reported.

Last week, Hamas complained to Egypt that Israel was not keeping its end of the bargain after a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip led to Israel suspending part of the truce agreement by cutting access to fishing waters of the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing. Continue Reading »

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| March 22, 2013
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Arab-Israeli tourist from Nazareth kidnapped in Sinai

According to reports, the Israeli tourist was abducted with a Norwegian woman.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirms that an Israeli citizen was kidnapped in the Sinai, & are in contact with Egyptian authorities.

 

An Israeli tourist and was kidnapped in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula along with an European tourist, Egyptian media reported Friday morning.

An archive photo of an Egyptian Bedouin waiting for tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh.

An archive photo of an Egyptian Bedouin waiting for tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh. Photo by Bloomberg

According to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, an Arab-Israeli man and a Norwegian woman were kidnapped as they were traveling between two beach resorts in Sinai.

There were conflicting reports as to the nationality of the woman. Continue Reading »

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