Bombing of a line of Egyptian gas to Israel

Bombing of the Egyptian gas line Asraúiltard Sunday morning Egyptian natural gas pipeline that provides both Israel and Jordan, the gas-bombing in the Sinai desert at the hands of ...
The effects of bombing in the pipeline which supplies gas to Israel in February last year (European)
Sunday morning was a pipeline of Egyptian natural gas, which provides both Israel and Jordan, the gas-bombing in the Sinai desert at the hands of unidentified gunmen, the civil defense vehicles rushed to extinguish the fire.


According to an official and witnesses, the gunmen placed explosives bottom line of the gas pipeline to run through the farm east of El Arish and Fjrōh.


The Egyptian security source said the German news agency that "the insurgents and put the explosives down the tube and blew up the gas pipeline distance and then fled," the source pointed out that the losses did not limit because of the continuing fire in the tube.


Witnesses said the flames rose about 20 meters in the area Kherobh east of El Arish, capital of North Sinai Governorate, where the bombing was the first under the new President Mohamed Morsi and 15th since the revolution of January 25 that toppled the ousted regime of President Hosni Mubarak.


For his part, said company official petroleum and natural gas (GASCO), which operates the line that the flame caused by remnants of gas, in reference to that line does not work at all.


It is noteworthy that many Egyptians strongly oppose the export of gas to Israel, in particular, that the reports that the Tel Aviv and signed the agreement for years to get under which the Egyptian gas at low prices.


The officials were punished last month in the reign of Mubarak on charges of gas deal with Israel, the Egyptian who prosecutors said he was the cause of wasting millions of dollars.


The Egyptian authorities have stopped exporting gas to Israel because of Israel's breach of the terms of the contract with Egypt.