Today, Israel maintains a security buffer between the Egyptian controlled Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.
Israel is not certain whether Egypt will also launch missiles into Israel via the Sinai peninsula.
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Nonetheless, Egypt's new President Mohammed Mursi has vowed to retake control of the Sinai Peninsula.
They will be able to supply the Manchester team with seeds and information that covers the Sinai peninsula.
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Israel seized the Golan Heights, along with the West Bank, Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, during the 1967 war.
Port Said, in northeastern Egypt, near the Sinai Peninsula, has had a tense relationship with Cairo dating back about 60 years.
Egypt has recently conducted offensively oriented war games in the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel surrendered the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and in exchange, Egypt has not staged a military attack against Israel from its territory.
In a televised statement, he condemned what he called a "cowardly" attack and said the security forces would "take full control" of the Sinai peninsula.
Dana also announced it had bid successfully for a field block in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, east of the Gulf of Suez.
All three men, described as jihadists, had been in touch with an al-Qaeda militant in Pakistan as well as another in the Sinai peninsula, the minister said.
Sinai, Egypt (CNN) -- Ten Yemeni militants infiltrated Egyptian soil two months ago and trained local Jihadi cells in the Sinai peninsula, a security official said Friday.
This was the logic that brought Israel to surrender the strategically priceless Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for the Camp David accord that will not survive Mubarak.
The fighting started Friday, after Israel assassinated the militant leader of the Popular Resistance Committee, claiming the Hamas-affiliated militia had planned to stage an attack on Israel via the Sinai Peninsula.
The steps announced Sunday come as Egyptian forces are battling militants in the Sinai Peninsula blamed for an attack that killed more than a dozen troops at a border post last week.
But an island of military control in his country undoubtedly causes problems for President Morsi, and the army has other duties to perform on the country's borders and in the increasingly tense Sinai Peninsula.
In the Six Day War of June 1967, Israel defeated the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, capturing the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel has long been concerned that the Sinai Peninsula is fast becoming ungoverned space: a Bedouin-dominated mini-state beyond Cairo's control, with various radical Palestinian groups often linked to local Bedouin extremists operating at will.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - As many as seven explosions struck the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, targeting several hotels and killing at least 36 people, witnesses and police said.
Having at first advocated annexing all the lands captured in 1967, he was soon pushing to give the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt, and became an early proponent of ceding sections of the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians.
Giving up the Golan Heights, an incredibly important buffer zone, in addition to surrendering most of the West Bank to the Palestinians (not to mention the already ceded Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula), would put Israel in the same vulnerable position it was in before the Six Day War of 1967.
As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned on Monday, Egyptian authorities are not asserting their sovereignty in Sinai and jihadists from Hamas, al-Qaida and other groups are inundating the peninsula.
Supported by the Obama administration, the Egyptians say they need to deploy forces in the Sinai in order to rein in and defeat the jihadist forces now running rampant throughout the peninsula.
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