Israeli Killed in Sinai Border Attack

Terrorists who crossed over from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula opened fire on civilians in Israel on Monday. The civilians were working on a border security fence. One of the Israeli workers was killed. Two of the attackers were killed in a gunfight with Israeli troops who responded to the assault. The army is now searching for three or four other terrorists whom they believe helped carry out the attack before escaping inside Israel.

The incident underscores the growing lawlessness in the Sinai desert since longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled last year. The deteriorating condition in the Sinai is a growing security problem for the Israeli government.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak responded today by telling reporters, “We are looking forward to the results of the elections in Egypt, and hope to see whoever is elected by the Egyptian people to follow the international commitments of Egypt, part of them the Israeli-Egyptian peace as well as the security commitments in the Sinai desert.”

The Trumpet has predicted that the new Egyptian government will come under the control of Islamists and that Israel’s Sinai border with Egypt will only get more unstable. For more information on where this growing instability is leading, read our free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy.