CAIRO: Israel's security officials have accused Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood of calling on Hamas to fire missiles from Northern Sinai into Israel. According to a report from the International Middle East Media Center, the officials said grad missiles were fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula into an open area in southern Israel. Brotherhood officials, currently in the midst of a presidential election in Egypt, told Bikyamasr.com on Sunday morning that the accusation was “nonsense” and that “it is another attempt to spark fear of Islamists in Egypt.” But the Israeli officials cited in the report said the rockets were fired by Bedouins living in Sinai on behalf of a Hamas “cell living in Sinai.” And the officials claim it was ordered by the Muslim Brotherhood. Israel's daily newspaper Haaretz reported that Israeli security officials are “confused about the motives of the Muslim Brotherhood,” reporting that since the Brotherhood has previously said the peace deals between Egypt and Israel would not be revoked if they are in power. But the newpspaper said government officials are worried that the campaigns of MB candidates have talked about revisiting the agreements and are calling on “liberating Jerusalem, the future capital of the Muslim caliphate.” Brotherhood officials, and candidates in the recent elections in the country, have not called for a pan-Arab Islamist government. Instead they have voiced their support for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as the capital. Former commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army, Gen. Yom-Tov Samia, was quoted as saying that “the grad missiles that were fired into southern Israel were launched from north Sinai,” and added that “the Sinai Peninsula started witnessing chaos and insecurity since the last days of the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak.”
