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Mubarak
Threatens Sharon to Deploy Egyptian Army in Sinai If Israel Attacks
Gaza
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Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
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By
Mohammad Zeyada, IOL Staff
CAIRO,
May 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak on Thursday, May 16, warned Israeli Prime Minister Arial
Sharon that the Egyptian army could be deployed at the
Egyptian-Israeli borders in case Israel attacked Gaza, news agencies
reported.
Mubarak,
in a message to Sharon delivered by Ihab El-Sherif, charge
d’affaires of the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, said that he will be
forced to break the peace treaty with Israel in case Sharon mobilizes
Israeli troops at the Egyptian-Israeli borders as a part of the
Israeli incursion on Gaza, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported.
According
to the Camp-David Accord between Egypt and Israel, no party is allowed
to threaten the other party’s borders. The accord also discussed the
presence of international forces at the borders.
Meanwhile,
in the Gaza trip, the Israeli army said Wednesday, May 15, it had
destroyed a 200-meter tunnel in Rafah that was connected with the
Egyptian side of the border, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
Israeli television broadcast shots taken at the tunnel, saying that it
is 4.5 meters deep. The tunnel, whose entrance was camouflaged in the
shower of a home, had both telephone and electricity cables running
along.
Israeli
army officials, who claim that the tunnel is used to smuggle drugs and
weapons, said this tunnel is the 8th they discovered and
destroyed since May 2002.
Since
2001, Maariv has repeatedly talked of so-called unearthed
Egyptian-Palestinian tunnels allegedly used to smuggle drugs and
weapons to Israel.
The
Israeli occupation army dug a ridge at the borders between Egypt and
Gaza to allegedly stop the smuggling of weapons through tunnels.
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