Israel tries to mend relations with Egypt
Israel "has made ​​it clear that our goal is to preserve the strategic relationship we have with Egypt for the common good," said a public Israeli diplomatic sources. "And so we passed on to the statement of Defence Minister Ehud Barak, that never wanted to harm the Egyptian soldiers in Sinai, and the invitation to the Egyptian army to participate in a joint investigation into what happened on Thursday. "
Egyptian political leaders protesting the death of five soldiers in the Sinai
The newspaper Al Ahram said he reached an Israeli general in Cairo to meet with senior military of that country, including members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in order to "contain the crisis," because the Israelis did not expect a reaction rotunda as its southern neighbor.
The spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Mark Regev, declined to comment last night released the information the web sites of several Egyptian media in that sense, but neither denied. "Neither comment nor confirm it," he said laconically Regev.
On Thursday night, the Israeli army killed five Egyptian soldiers near the border between the two countries in the Sinai Peninsula, but on the inside of Egypt. Israel said its soldiers were pursuing members of a command just before eight Israelis shot down the road from Beersheba to Eilat in the south.
Israel and Hamas agree to a new cease-fire, but attacks continue
The incident has sparked a cascade of sentences in Egypt. Several politicians likely to be encountered in the upcoming presidential election have expressed sharply over Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood has said that we must review the Camp David accords of 1979 between the two countries.
Hero by removing a flag
Ahmed Shahat, a 23-year-old has become a hero overnight because in the morning he climbed the 13 floors of the Embassy of Israel in Cairo to remove the flag flying on the mast and put in place another Egyptian. The Embassy of Israel in Egypt has become the focus of protests against the Jewish state.
The Army made the largest raid in Hebron of Palestinians in eight years
Moreover, Israel and Hamas agreed last night a new cease-fire in Gaza after three days of continuous attacks. The agreement was made possible through the mediation of Egypt, although some militias refused, and shows that Israel has no interest in a deterioration of the situation in these circumstances, mostly because there is a clear risk that relations with Egypt jump by the air.
Shelling and rocket
However, during the day kept the tension between Gaza and Israel. The Israeli warplanes continued bombing targets inside the Gaza Strip, while Palestinian militants firing rockets into Israel. Twenty-three Israeli civilians and military, were admitted in various hospitals last night with injuries to varying degrees which has caused the rain of rockets.
Since the incident on Thursday in the Sinai, the militias have fired more than a hundred rockets and mortar shells. A Grad rocket that fell in the city of Beersheba on Saturday night claimed the life of a person. Moreover, in the bombings of Israeli targets Aviation Hamas in densely populated areas several wounded civilians, including children.
In addition, more than 50 Palestinians, many individuals and families linked to Hamas, were arrested by the Israeli army in the largest raid in Hebron area since 2003, Efe reported. Among those arrested were the parliamentarian Mohamed Abu Deisher and children of Hamas leaders.
