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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters in a statement Saturday night in Jerusalem that Israel will stand by the peace treaty with Egypt, and thanked the United States for its assistance in persuading Cairo to take action in protecting people at the Israeli embassy following an attack. "The attack on the Israeli embassy in Egypt was a very serious thing, but could have been even worse, had they made it past the last door, and hurt our people who were trapped in the embassy," the prime minister said. "I'm glad we were able to prevent a disaster... Israel will continue...

Some 40,000 rioters sack Israeli embassy In first new disclosures on the storming of Israel's Cairo embassy which started Friday night, Sept. 9, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources reveal that the mob was led by the terrorist Jama'a al-Islamiya, the Egyptian founding branch of Al Qaeda, and two other radical Egyptian Islamist groups. The February 1993 car bombing of the World Trade Center of New York, which was the forerunner of the Sept. 11, 2001 atrocities, was an early Jama'a operation under the al Qaeda label. Closely linked to Osama bin Laden's successor, Ayman al Zawahri, Jama'a al-Islamiya is now running for...

Protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped documents out of the windows as hundreds more demonstrated outside, prompting the ambassador to rush to the airport to leave. The unrest was a further worsening of already deteriorating ties between Israel and post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt. Egyptian police made no attempt to intervene during the day as crowds of hundreds tore down an embassy security wall with sledgehammers and their bare hands or after nightfall when about 30 protesters stormed into the Nile-side high-rise building where the embassy is located. Just before midnight, the group of protesters reached a...

Cyprus seals off Israel embassy in suspect car alert   NICOSIA, April 16 (Reuters) - Cypriot police on Tuesday sealed off the Israeli embassy in Nicosia after a car abandoned in a busy street close to the building roused suspicions, authorities said. Police saw two young men park their vehicle on a thoroughfare about 100 metres (yards) away from the heavily-guarded embassy and abandon it on foot. "They were foreigners. We are trying to locate them now," the duty officer at police headquarters told Reuters. A bomb disposal squad was had been summoned to the area and traffic was diverted. The incident occurred as women's groups protested...