Ynet News Mubarak: Israel tried to deceive Egypt in every way On Saturday, Egypt celebrated the 33rd year since Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt on April, 25 1982. Now that Mubarak has been acquitted of the most serious charge of which he was accused – the killing of protesters on January 25, 2011 – he felt comfortable enough to conduct an interview with his favorite broadcaster Ahmed Moussa on the Sada El-Balad TV station. During the phone interview, which Mubarak conducted from his room at a military hospital in Cairo, where he has been staying for the past few years because of his health condition, the former president spoke out against Israel and claimed that it tried to evade commitments it made during the peace deal it signed with Anwar Sadat. "Israel tried to deceive us in every way possible like it has done on the issue of the Golan Heights. It tried to keep Taba for itself with the excuse that it has a hotel there... it got to the point where in March 1982, a month before the withdrawal, the Israelis came and said that Taba was not part of Egypt's historic borders," Mubarak said. In the surprising interview that lasted 13 minutes, the 86-year-old spoke of the battles to take back Sinai. Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4651141,00.html Al Monitor Hamas reaches out to Egypt The tunnels are a major issue in the strained Hamas-Egyptian relations, with Hamas accused of using them to smuggle gunmen and weapons between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. When he took office in June 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi decided to carry out a military campaign targeting the tunnels and the lines of communication they offer armed cells. On April 6, Egypt announced a firm plan to destroy them. An Egyptian security official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, "Work is underway to complete the buffer zone along the border with Gaza. There is a conviction that no matter how many tunnels are destroyed in Gaza, smugglers and gunmen will rebuild them. A single tunnel is built in Gaza, and then turns into several tunnels inside Egypt, like a spider web that goes through houses and mosques." He added, "The tunnels that the Egyptian army is destroying are being rebuilt the next day in a tactical way. Once a tunnel is destroyed, Hamas moves back 10 meters [33 feet] and digs another one." Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/04/hamas-egypt-tunnels-attacks-sinai-gaza-tension.html#ixzz3YaRW0g5W Huffington Post Women Battle to Report Sexual Harassment in Egypt Amira, 26, commutes to work every day by bus. "Most of the time it is too crowded to sit", she says. One night she is almost at her stop when a man standing next to her tries to shove his hand down her trousers. "From behind I felt somebody lift up my shirt and put their hand between my belt en my skin," Amira describes, recalling how she created a big scene and dragged the man to the nearest police station. It's been more than ten months since Egypt adopted a new law that was supposed to make it easier for women in Egypt to press charges against someone who has sexually harassed them. Unfortunately, in reality, not much has changed. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/egyptian-streets/women-battle-to-report-se_b_7143572.html?ir=India Belfast Telegraph Egypt detainee 'considered suicide' Ibrahim Halawa, 19, from Firhouse in south Dublin, has been detained in Cairo since August 2013. His sister, Nosayba Halawa, who visited her brother last month, called for the government to do more to secure his release. She said: "He used to tell me that sometimes he feels like he cannot cope and that he thinks of suicide." Mr Halawa and three of his sisters were arrested after taking part in a protest in the Egyptian capital. The siblings, whose father Sheikh Hussein Halawa is the imam of Ireland's largest mosque, were forced to seek sanctuary in the Al Fateh mosque amid violent clashes between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and the security forces. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/egypt-detainee-considered-suicide-31172562.html
