{"id":8856,"date":"2013-08-10T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2013-08-10T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T10:42:43","slug":"egypt-denies-israeli-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8856","title":{"rendered":"Egypt denies Israeli attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8857\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8857\" alt=\"Israeli drone\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli drone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egyptian Armed Forces Spokesperson Colonel Ahmad Ali categorically denied circulated reports of Israeli drone attacks behind the two blasts that hit the Egyptian city of Rafah Friday, killing at least five suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is not true, either in form nor substance, that there were any attacks from the Israeli side inside Egyptian territory,&#8221; Ali told the state news agency (MENA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Likewise, the claim that there was coordination between the Egyptian and the Israeli side in this matter is a matter completely void of truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Egyptian border is a red line that could not be violated.&#8221; The Israeli government did not comment on the reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several international news agencies have published reports about Israeli drone attack inside Sinai Peninsula Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier Colonel Ali released a statement saying that two explosions were heard at 4:15 pm in the area of Egra in Northern Sinai, adding that the area is currently being inspected to reveal the cause of the explosions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Militants based mainly in North Sinai near the border with Israel have been launching attacks on Egyptian and Israeli targets over past years, but they have escalated their assaults since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi on July 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sinai Peninsula is largely demilitarized as part of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 but Israel has approved troop reinforcements to combat the militants and smuggling by Palestinians into Gaza. &#8211; KUNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Armed Forces Spokesperson Colonel Ahmad Ali categorically denied circulated reports of Israeli drone attacks behind the two blasts that hit the Egyptian city of Rafah Friday, killing at least five suspected terrorists. &#8220;It is not true, either in form nor substance, that there were any attacks from the Israeli side inside Egyptian territory,&#8221; Ali &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egypt denies Israeli attack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[4964,190,286,178,4963,4962],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-drone-attack","tag-egypt","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-rafah","tag-sinai"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/israeldrone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}