HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. TERRORISTS FROM SINAI KILL 15 EGYPTIANS, SEIZE ARMORED VEHICLES AND ATTEMPT TO CRASH THROUGH THE ISRAEL BORDER
Thanks to early warning, IDF succeeded in preventing assault on Kerem Shalom. Assessments: Global Jihad responsible. Earlier, terrorist was eliminated in Gaza.
2. MIGRANT WORKERS AND PALESTINIANS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO APPEAL TO COURTS IN ISRAEL
From now on, only those who carry Israeli identity cards or passports can petition.
MA’ARIV
1. Last night: Early warning prevented multiple casualty terrorist attack in Israel.
TERRORISTS NAB EGYPTIAN ARMORED VEHICLE AND CRASH THROUGH BORDER CROSSING IN THE SOUTH IDF eliminates seven Jihad activists who had killed 15 Egyptian soldiers and infiltrated into Israel. Thousands hid in their homes in fear of infiltration.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Terrorists in two APC’s break through the border from Egypt.
SINAI TERROR ATTACK
Dozens of terrorists, apparently from Global Jihad, open fire on Egyptian barrier at Rafiah: They killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, seized two APC’s, and raced to the Israeli border. Thanks to an early warning, the Air Force eliminated the terrorists at the border, while Eshkol Regional Council area residents closed themselves in locked homes.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. ISA warning realized: Global Jihad terrorists seize Egyptian outpost, kill 15 Egyptian policemen and tried to infiltrate into Israel with armored vehicles.
IDF FOILS MEGA-ATTACK
One armored vehicle exploded at Kerem Shalom crossing, the second crossed the border but was destroyed by IAF jets. Terrorists who tried to escape – were eliminated. Residents directed to remain locked in their homes. IDF searched the area to ensure that no terrorists remained behind.
WALLA!
1. TERRORISTS CARRIED EXPLOSIVE BELTS, RIFLES: „PLANNED SHOWCASE ATTACK”
NANA10
1. REPORT FROM EGYPT: „TERRORISTS INFILTRATED INTO SINAI THROUGH GAZA TUNNELS”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:40.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three newspapers comment on the thwarting of a major terrorist attack on the Egyptian border yesterday evening<www.idf.il/1283-16775-EN/Dover.aspx>:
Yediot Ahronot accuses the Egyptian authorities of scorning Israel’s warnings of an impending terrorist attack and notes that Egyptian interior Minister Gen. Ahmed Jamal Adin claimed
– in an article in Saturday’s Al Ahram – that, „Israel’s warnings were a fabrication designed to harm tourism to Egypt,” and that, „The situation in Sinai has never been better.” The author asserts, „Yesterday, the Egyptian government received a terrible slap in the face which, perhaps, will cause the Islamist President to wake up and understand that without full cooperation with Israel, Global Jihad will establish order not only in Sinai and along the border, but within Egypt itself.” The paper calls on the IDF and ISA not to rest on their laurels, but to be alert for further attempts by Global Jihad, Hezbollah and others to exploit the situation in Sinai in order to perpetrate attacks against Israel. The author urges the Egyptians to establish law and order in Sinai and thus obviate any Israeli need to strike at the aforesaid terrorists in Sinai itself.
Ma’ariv says that the Egyptian authorities have had their collective head in the sand vis-à-vis what has been happening in Sinai and warns that, „Those who stick their heads in the sand will, in the end, be buried there.” The author notes that the Americans have, so far, refrained from conditioning their assistance to Egypt on the reestablishment of law and order in Sinai, and cautions that nothing less than the peace treaty with Egypt and regional stability are at stake. The paper concludes: „Hosni Mubarak is dying in his cage, Omar Suleiman has passed away and all that we have left are yearnings for the old order, which has given way to a much more dangerous game.”
Yisrael Hayom suggests that, „The IDF was surprised yesterday, not by the attack, but by its daring,” and adds, „The attack that rolled towards us yesterday was larger, and more daring and challenging than anything we have known up until now.” While the author says, „The Morsi regime counted its first dead last night and will have to explain to its people how the enemy could have come from within,” he nevertheless contends, „The good news is that they [the Egyptians] have no doubt that we were not responsible; the bad news is that one would have to be quite the optimist to believe that following this attack, they will begin to act in Sinai.”
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