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ISRAELI DIPLOMATS FLEE CAIRO AFTER ATTACK ON EMBASSY
Tert.am
10:23 ~U 10.09.11
Israeli ambassador to Egypt and embassy staff arrived in the Cairo
international airport, waiting for an Israeli military plane to
whisk them away to Tel Aviv after an attack on the embassy building,
Al Jazeera reported.
A group of protesters breached early on Saturday multiple floors of
a high-rise building housing the Israeli embassy.
Al-Jazeera aired a video footage showing hundreds Israeli mission
documents being thrown out of the windows as the demonstrators
reportedly broke into the embassy's archives.
Several hundred protesters remain outside the building in a standoff
with police reinforcements which have arrived in the area supported
by at least 20 armored vehicles.
Police have fired warning shots with rubber bullets and used tear gas
to disperse the crowds. Local media reported at least 450 protesters
injured in clashes with authorities.
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf summoned on Saturday his Cabinet
crisis team and the Interior Ministry put police on high alert.
Israel has created a crisis center under Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman, which is monitoring the situation in the Egyptian capital
following the riots.
On Friday evening demonstrators partially destroyed a wall built
outside the Israeli embassy to protect the building, ripped down the
Israeli flag and set several police cars on fire.
Egyptians have been staging mass protests outside the embassy and
calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador for almost a month
following the border deaths of five Egyptian policemen accidentally
killed on August 18 as an Israeli helicopter hunted a group of
militants near the Egyptian border.
Egypt has asked Israel for an official apology and demanded a probe
into the deaths of the policemen.
Tert.am
10:23 ~U 10.09.11
Israeli ambassador to Egypt and embassy staff arrived in the Cairo
international airport, waiting for an Israeli military plane to
whisk them away to Tel Aviv after an attack on the embassy building,
Al Jazeera reported.
A group of protesters breached early on Saturday multiple floors of
a high-rise building housing the Israeli embassy.
Al-Jazeera aired a video footage showing hundreds Israeli mission
documents being thrown out of the windows as the demonstrators
reportedly broke into the embassy's archives.
Several hundred protesters remain outside the building in a standoff
with police reinforcements which have arrived in the area supported
by at least 20 armored vehicles.
Police have fired warning shots with rubber bullets and used tear gas
to disperse the crowds. Local media reported at least 450 protesters
injured in clashes with authorities.
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf summoned on Saturday his Cabinet
crisis team and the Interior Ministry put police on high alert.
Israel has created a crisis center under Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman, which is monitoring the situation in the Egyptian capital
following the riots.
On Friday evening demonstrators partially destroyed a wall built
outside the Israeli embassy to protect the building, ripped down the
Israeli flag and set several police cars on fire.
Egyptians have been staging mass protests outside the embassy and
calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador for almost a month
following the border deaths of five Egyptian policemen accidentally
killed on August 18 as an Israeli helicopter hunted a group of
militants near the Egyptian border.
Egypt has asked Israel for an official apology and demanded a probe
into the deaths of the policemen.