{"id":8688,"date":"2013-08-12T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:11:12","slug":"israel-staying-mum-on-airstrike-near-egyptian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israel-staying-mum-on-airstrike-near-egyptian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel staying mum on airstrike near Egyptian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Israel is neither confirming nor denying that it was responsible for a drone attack on terrorists near its border with Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued late Saturday night, Israel&#8217;s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that \u2018\u2018Israel respects the full sovereignty of Egypt,\u2019\u2019 and that Israel is \u2018\u2018aware of the Egyptian military\u2019s increased activity against terror infrastructures in the Sinai Peninsula.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yaalon said &#8220;rumors and speculation&#8221; over the drone strike on Friday would not harm the peace between Egypt and Israel.\u00a0 It is believed that Israel and Egypt cooperated in stopping a rocket launch against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The strike killed four armed members of a terrorist organization preparing an attack on Israel, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian officials at first said Israel perpetrated the attack, but later said an Egyptian helicopter launched the airstrike, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came a day after Israel closed its Eilat airport for two hours, reportedly after warnings from Egypt that terrorists could target the area.<\/p>\n<p>Ansar Jerusalem, a terror group linked to al-Qaida, said its members were the targets of the drone attack.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%20Israel%20staying%20mum%20on%20airstrike%20near%20Egyptian%20border\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[486,726,137,797,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}