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| Egyptian Military Official Warns J'lem Over Sinai |
| 2012-09-25 |
| [Jerusalem Post] "We'll cut off the hands of any aggressor," SCAF member threatens, according to Egyptian paper 'al-Masry al-Youm.' A member of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has warned that it would "cut off the hands" of any domestic or foreign aggressor in Sinai. The official, who refused to be named, accused Israel of attempting to provoke Egypt, and said his country's armed forces were dealing with the matter "wisely and quietly", the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported late Sunday night. The remarks came in the wake of Israeli calls for a military operation in Sinai after Friday's terrorist attack on the Sinai border that killed an IDF soldier and maimed another. Twenty-year-old Netanel Yahalomi, of the IDF Artillery Corps, was shot in the head as he and his unit were giving water to African migrants who had arrived on the border. Shots were fired at IDF Artillery Corps and Caracal (Wildcat) battalion -- an infantry force made up of male and female combat soldiers -- from a distance of 100 meters. The soldiers instantly returned fire, shooting dead two terrorists, said IDF front man Brig-Gen. Yoav Mordechai. The official, who said Israel had threatened a military operation, noted that the Egyptian leadership is monitoring all of the recent developments on the border with Israel. Egypt would not allow "a single inch" of Sinai to be harmed, the official added. |
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