(Jerusalem Post) Sharon Udasin - After gunmen attacked the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel in northern Sinai on Saturday - the fifth such attack in the past six months - Israeli energy expert Amit Mor said he believes that Israeli officials and the country's major gas consumers have all but "given up" on that source of natural gas. During Saturday's attack, the saboteurs used rocket-propelled grenades to punch a hole in a section of the pipeline that normally directs gas to Israel, but whose supply had not yet been resumed from the previous attack on July 12. The gunmen arrived in two trucks but sped away from the site after being confronted by Egyptian troops. There were no casualties. "The resumption of the full contractual obligation of gas supply to Israel can be used as a test-case of the Egyptian government to maintain its international obligations vis-a-vis foreign direct investments in Egypt, on the one hand, and its future relations with Israel, on the other," Mor said.
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