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Egypt Terminates Natural Gas Agreement with Israel
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Mohamed Shoeb, head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company, announced Sunday that the company will terminate the agreement to provide natural gas to Israel. It may be a dangerous precedent indicating other agreements between Egypt and Israel may also come to an end. The sale of natural gas to Israel had been one of the main criticisms the Egyptian opposition voiced against former Egyptian president Mubarak. Both the gas company and Egypt's security forces have spent great efforts and manpower in securing the pipeline, but after 14 explosions and the failure to get Sinai's Bedouin to cooperate, it seems that Egypt had given up.