Egyptian Gas Pipeline to Israel Hit with Fresh Attack

Egyptian Gas Pipeline to Israel Hit with Fresh Attack

At least one person was injured in a fresh attack overnight on an Egyptian gas pipeline supplying gas from Egypt to Israel, witnesses and Egyptian security sources said Tuesday. At least three gunmen in a van opened fire on a gas installation before an explosion hit the pipeline near the town of al-Arish in the north of the Sinai peninsula, witnesses said. Since Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February, the pipeline has encountered six attacks in which gas deliveries were disrupted to both Israel and Jordan several times, but it was not immediately clear what impact the latest attack would have on supplies. Army experts have also located and defused a number of other devices targeting the pipeline. Egypt supplies 43 percent of Israel's natural gas and 40 percent of Israel's electricity comes from this source.

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