Rift deepens between Egypt, Israel over Rafah crossing newarab.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newarab.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts have continued in search of an imminent breakthrough to complete a prisoner exchange deal within the framework of a temporary truce amid mounting international warnings of a “disaster” if Israel invades the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. An informed Egyptian source told Asharq Al-Awsat that Cairo is intensifying its contacts with all parties in an attempt to bring views closer between Israel and Hamas, in preparation for an agreement on a truce that will also include a prisoner swap deal.
When the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) published last month, a book that partly deals with the October 1973 War, it included two documents related to the meeting of Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the information secretary of his predecessor, President Anwar Sadat, with the head of the Mossad. “The Angel,” “Babylon” and most frequently “the In-Law,” are code names that were given for “the spy”, who leaked to the Israelis the date of the Egyptian attack.
ISIS militants attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said. "Five regime forces and two drivers have been killed in the armed attack by ISIS militants" in the east of Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to AFP, the attackers used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, said the Britain-based monitor, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria.
Palestinian Factions Discuss Formation of Govt of Technocrats aawsat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aawsat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.