The death of the Egyptian army test for Egypt-Israel treaty

CAIRO - Yesterday a number of Egyptian soldiers in a firefight with Israeli forces, moments after a sudden attack on the Sinai border raid that sparked the brutal Israeli offensive against Gaza reported by some quarters as a test of the treaty which has been established between the two countries in 1979.

Mujahideen Palestinians pelted southern Israel with rockets and mortars at least
80 since Friday (19 /8 ), killing an Israeli on Saturday (20 /8 ) in the desert town of Beersheba, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Gaza.

Israel claimed it as the heaviest rocket attack from Gaza since Israel launched air and ground operation in Gaza to halt rocket attacks every day in early 2009.

The attack that sparked this dual crisis began when Israel received the shock of its border in the Sinai area. A bus and a car Israel became a target shooting and throwing bombs along the border of Egypt on Thursday. The Egyptian soldiers were were killed during a shootout between militants and Israeli troops.

Israel issued a rare apology over this incident. "Israel regrets the death of an Egyptian police over the attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border," said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said in a statement on Saturday (20 /8 ). Israel said it would conduct an investigation.

An Israeli defense official claimed that the attackers from Gaza. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to reporters.

Egypt blames Israel. Egypt withdrew its ambassador in Israel and declare that the explicitly that Israel had violated the peace agreement that has been made.

The agreement between Israel and Egypt signed in 1979 threatened a long time since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February after a popular uprising. Mubarak judged people too supportive of Israel and negotiate a deal that is very detrimental to supply Egyptian natural gas to Israel.

During that time, Israel made anxious by the emergence of opinion in the uprising that occurred in Egypt that the Muslim country which had previously been a close friend of Israel (via Hosni Mubarak) is going to change the bow into an Islamic state. Israeli anxiety is increasing with the frequent occurrence of attacks on
pipelines that deliver natural gas to Israel from Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.

Israel 'indignant' over attack unexpectedly in the Sinai. In response, Israeli authorities ordered the military to carry out air strikes in Gaza that has killed 12 Palestinians, including two children, since Thursday, and Israeli leaders have made it clear that they will not let Gaza.

In parallel, Israel is trying to maintain the already shaky relations with Egypt. Israel
says Gaza militants crossing into the Sinai of Egypt, probably through one of the hundreds of smuggling tunnels under the border, then make the road more than 100 miles (150 kilometers) through the barren desert before making an attack on a road near the border of southern Israel.

Israel has been worried about the resurgence in the activities of militant Islam in the Sinai since the fall of Mubarak.

Last week, Egypt sent thousands of troops into the Sinai as part of a major operation against militants of al-Qaeda who allegedly have been increasingly active since the overthrow Mubarak.

Although the military leaders who now ruled Egypt have expressed their commitment to maintain the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the anti-Israel sentiment has increasingly grown in Egypt since the overthrow Mubarak.