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Friday, May 14, 2010     FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Hamas-Egypt tensions mounting at Gaza border

GAZA CITY — Tensions have been rising rapidly between Egypt and the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.

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Hamas and Egypt have accused each other of generating friction along the 14-kilometer border between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Hamas said Egypt has kept dozens of Hamas operatives in detention on charges of infiltrating or operating in Sinai, Middle East Newsline reported.

"Their condition is abysmal," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. "They are subjected to horrific methods of torture. They are electrocuted, hung from their limbs for long periods of time, and beaten."


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Hamas was believed to have retaliated against Egypt. On May 12, a bomb was found and defused outside the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City in what was termed an unprecedented incident.

Palestinian sources said the bomb marked a Hamas warning to Egypt. They said Hamas has been threatened by Egypt's siege of the Gaza Strip and its seizure of weapons and money sent to Hamas.

"Hamas believes that it must change this situation immediately," a Palestinian source familiar with the Hamas regime said.

For its part, Egypt has intensified efforts against weapons and other smuggling to the Gaza Strip. On May 12, an Egyptian Navy vessel rammed into a Gaza fishing boat, which then capsized. Egypt has assessed that Palestinian fishing boats marked a major element in the smuggling industry in the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas Interior Ministry said the Egyptian Navy captured five Palestinians on the fishing boat and beat them with clubs and pipes. The ministry said one of the fishermen died from the beating.

"The Egyptian corvette moved very rapidly toward the Palestinian boat, brutally capsized it, and hit Mohammed repeatedly till he died," the son of the dead Palestinian, Mohammed Ibrahim Al Bardawil, said. "The Egyptian Navy left the body in sea."




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Great! It is hard to do mindless terror when your stomach has those missed meal blues...

CW Orange      2:56 a.m. / Saturday, May 15, 2010

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