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The Egyptian people voiced criticism on their new leadership, Mubarak’s close ties to Israel’s leaders, the Gaza situation and last week’s deadly response near Eilat where 5 Egyptian soldiers were killed by the IDF.
Al Arabiya reports and coverage by Al Jazeera
Egyptian protesters break into Israeli Embassy in Cairo as Obama expresses concern to Netanyahu
(Haaretz) – BREAKING NEWS – A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows, Egyptian and Israeli officials said. Meanwhile, the U.S. president spoke with Israel’s prime minister about the situation.
Hundreds of protesters had been converging on the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall outside the 21-story building housing the embassy. Egyptian security forces made no attempt for hours to intervene.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli official confirmed the embassy had been broken into, saying it appeared the group reached a waiting room on the lower floor. No one answered the phone at the embassy late Friday.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Barak Obama spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. The President’s office said in a statement that Obama expressed great concern about the situation at the Embassy, and the security of the Israelis serving there.
Bibi and Barak’s Terror Fraud: Egyptian News Reports Attackers Were Egyptian, Not Gazan
Prof. Ellis Goldberg, an Egypt specialist at the University of Washington, also just confirmed the reliability of Al Masry in the context of this story. He sent me a link to a new story in today’s Al Masry. It describes the Israeli incursion which killed the five Egyptian security officers (not three, as the NY Times has reported):
“Reliable sources said that an Israeli unit entered (Sinai) at border point 79, in pursuit of the Eilat attackers, and then fought with the Egyptian unit stationed there. The sources said that an Israeli helicopter intervened in the clash, and fired two missiles, and then hovered vertically over the Egyptian unit and opened fire with two machine guns, killing instantly Captain Ahmed Galal-with nine shots and a number of [missile] fragments-two soldiers, and two others [who] died later.”
… A vehicle belonging to the border security forces, was on its way to the scene, and was exposed to a barrage of fire launched by the Israeli force and the armed groups.
What is extraordinary about all this is that Israeli forces not only invaded Egypt to pursue these attackers, but that they engaged with legitimate Egyptian security forces (rather than the militants), and severely sabotaged the Egyptian operation to capture the killers. This meant that in the gun battle, the Egyptian forces were not just fighting the Eilat militants, but the IDF as well.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
