Rockets hit Israeli city of Eilat
JERUSALEM—Militants in the Sinai peninsula fired at least two rockets at Israel’s southern resort town of Eilat early Wednesday, officials said, highlighting what Israel says is a dire security situation in neighbouring Egypt.
Nobody was hurt in the attack, police said, although one rocket exploded near the courtyard of a house. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the remains of two Grad-style katyusha rockets had been found and bomb experts were looking for more.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was travelling to London Wednesday for the funeral of Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said he had spoken with his defence minister and discussed how to respond.
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel but relations are cool. The Sinai was until recently a popular destination for Israeli travellers.
But Israeli officials have grown increasingly jittery about the situation in the Sinai since the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Islamic militant groups, some believed to be affiliated with the Al Qaeda terror network, have taken advantage of a power vacuum in the lawless area and have carried out a string of rocket attacks and other operations along the border.
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