Israel okays changes to Egypt gas deal

Bikya Masr

29 August 2009

CAIRO: Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) announced that its board members have approved changes to a previous agreement with Egypt. The statement on Thursday says the new deal will create a steady flow of natural gas into the Jewish state.

The IEC said in a statement that as a result of the changes that have occurred in the global fuel market and with new costs of gas production in Egypt, the new deal changes the price of gas for the export deal that has left many Egyptian activists angered.

The IEC did not provide exact details of the new arrangement, but said that it took into account political pressures in Egypt.  read more »

ISMAILIA, Egypt, June 28 (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant and wounded two others, including a 15-year-old, at the Israeli border on Sunday, security sources told Reuters.

The killing is the second of an unarmed migrant on Egypt's border with Israel in less than a week.

The security sources said they had spotted three men attempting to slip across the border into Israel and ordered them to stop, opening fire when the migrants failed to do so.

The unidentified African man was killed by a bullet fired into the right side of his chest, and the two Eritreans with him were also shot, the sources said.

Ever since Egypt started supplying Israel with natural gas, the average Egyptian literally has no value. This has been a decision that totally conflicts with our pride and heritage. Israel has always been our one ultimate enemy, and will always be.