Egypt-Israel tensions mount amid violence

| August 20, 2011

Egypt's cabinet has summoned the Israeli ambassador in Cairo because of shootings on the Israeli side of the border that led to the killing of three Egyptian security personnel. There were angry scenes outside the Israeli embassy in the Egyptian capital

Egyptian protesters want end to peace with Israel

| August 20, 2011

Hundreds of Egyptians gathered at the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday to protest the apparently accidental killing of five border police by an Israeli helicopter. The incident, on Thursday, came as the helicopter was reportedly moving across the border in pursuit of armed men thought to be connected to an earlier attack inside southern Israel that killed eight people



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