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Unidentified gunmen blew up Saturday night line to export natural gas to Israel and Jordan for the twelfth time in a single year, according to security sources.The sources confirmed that the masked gunmen blew up the line in the area near the town of El Arish Almsaid in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, using improvised explosive devices that have been developed down the line.Witnesses said they heard loud explosions followed by a large fire. They said the firemen rushed to the scene in an attempt to extinguish the fire without registration of injuries.The sources said that the bombing of the line came a day after the death of a Muslim leader from the region, in prison in Cairo. Officials at the Ministry of Defense that his death resulted from natural causes.One source said that the fire service were sent to the possibility to try to put out the fire, adding that he does not have the information now for the damages.Ten is the second time since the revolution that led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak from power, which is the bombing of the pipeline that transports gas to Jordan and Israel, despite the announcement by the Egyptian authorities have repeatedly taken new security measures.No one has claimed responsibility for the actions of the bombing.Sale agreement and deliver natural gas to Israel, which struck during the reign of Hosni Mubarak, with strong opposition in public opinion and the political class in Egypt because of the Jewish state for the Egyptian gas at a lower price than the market price.Israel's imports and 43 percent of its needs for natural gas from Egypt and produces 40 percent of electricity from imported Egyptian gas.As well as Jordan imports 80 percent of the needs of Egyptian gas to produce electricity, a 6.8 million cubic meters of imported gas a day.The desert of Sinai, a sensitive area, particularly in the field of security because of tensions with some of the Bedouin tribes. And pass through many of the smuggling operations with the besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Source: French
Source: French
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