Military denies that foreign troops will be deployed in Sinai

Featured

Posters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) covering walls before the November Parliamentary elections, Alexandria, October 20, 2010. MB started hanging posters over walls including its slogans of "Islam is the Solutiom" and "Along We Change". Posters were seen in many electoral districts especially in Ammriya, Dekheila, al-Raml and Gherbal.

SCC rejects religious slogans in election law

Egypt's highest court ruled on Saturday that parts of a revised election law setting out terms for a parliamentary...

Headquarter of Supreme Constitutional Court in Maadi, Cairo, 13 June 2012>

Laws on parliamentary elections and political rights ruled unconstitutional

On Saturday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) declared several articles within the parliamentary...

Saturday’s papers: Egypt plunges into electricity crisis

Saturday’s newspapers cover the continuous power cuts with big headlines. While independent dailies discuss the...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, during the Arab Foreign Ministers Peace Initiative meeting, in Sirte.

Palestinian-Israeli peace deal 'still possible': Abbas

Peace between Israelis and Palestinians is "still possible", Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on...

File photo of Nawal Ali after she was sexually assaulted by loyalists of former tyrant Hosni Mubarak

This Day in History, 25 May 2005: Mubarak thugs sexually assault journalist Nawal Ali

On 25 May 2005, the regime of former tyrant Hosni Mubarak committed one of its most notorious crimes when some of his...

Egypt not opposed to Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam

Egypt is not opposed to the construction of the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, or to any other development project, as...

Military denies that foreign troops will be deployed in Sinai

On

Sat, 24/11/2012 - 14:00

Printer-friendly versionSend to friend

AFP

Prev Next Pause Play

Egypt Independent

Military Spokesperson Mohamed Ahmed Ali denied plans to deploy US forces in Sinai as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

“The armed forces confirms entrenched Egyptian national security policies to preserve its sovereignty. It doesn’t accept the presence of foreign forces on its land,” Ali posted on Facebook.

He added that the only foreign forces based in Sinai are multinational ones from 13 countries. The Multinational Force and Observers have been in Sinai since 25 April 1982, after Israel withdrew from Sinai, as part of the two sides’ commitment to the Camp David Peace Accords.

The Israeli DEBKAfile website, which is close to the Israeli intelligence establishment, reported Friday that there will be a US military presence in Sinai as part of the truce between Gaza and Israel.

The report was also denied by the Egyptian military attache in Washington, Major General Mohamed al-Keshki.