Egyptian army and police in the Sinai Peninsula mistakenly Bedouin's funeral on Tuesday dismissed, security officials say suspected militants abducted by security personnel scan searches the prologue.
This incident prompted kidnapped last week described the dangers of military operations. A heavy-handed attempt to release the prisoners, in the Sinai Peninsula, the local population's security crackdown in the past has fueled discontent with the militant volatile peninsula, bordering Gaza and Israel rally brought the rise of the risk.
And in the face of angry public security forces abducted President Mohammed Mursi said that all options are on the table to ensure the release of seven prisoners and the president will not negotiate with the kidnappers.
Tuesday, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said the 0:00 action against the kidnappers yet decided, especially since they are equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. He talked about the state news agency MENA.
Contributed to this week released a video on YouTube shows blindfolded prisoners, pleading Mursi and his defense minister to meet kidnappers' demands, including militants convicted prisoners released from the Sinai tough response to the appeal scores . Prisoners, including six members of the security forces and military border guards.
However, several officials have said, the mediator has been in contact with the kidnappers to release their feasibility study. Mursi Islamist allies - militants in Sinai connection - has called for a negotiated settlement.
"This crisis must be resolved, said:" I think a political solution must be given to protection of life conscripts, rather than in the Sinai Peninsula, causing further deterioration of the situation Tariq EL-Desouki, a leading member of the ultra-conservative Salafi efforts Seoul party who traveled to Sinai crisis and local officials. "There is a chance."
El-Desouki security deployment as a pressure card to force them to accept a political solution is "acceptable."
Since Monday, the army and police reinforcements supported by armored vehicles and helicopters have moved into the northern Sinai Peninsula a show of strength, a lot of deployments around the provincial capital, EL-Arish. A military official said the army in Cairo to conduct reconnaissance and search operations, but will not say if this is the rescue operation begins prisoners. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the operation.
Tuesday's incident came when police and army swept through several villages near the border with Israeli officials say they suspect held captive helicopter support.
Troops encountered eight pickups and funeral convoy refused to be ordered to stop the vehicle, troops thought they were gunmen opened fire, security officials said.
Some frigate fired back - most of the Bedouin armed - to promote conflict until mourners fled the scene, leaving the body of a man who had planned to bury. Forces thought that the man had been killed in the fighting until the local tribal leaders, security commander explained that the team had drowned a person's funeral, officials said.
Elayan, drowning in the area and close to the tribal people, tribal chiefs Ahmed said the helicopter crew suspected the funeral procession, which has opened the back of the truck body, is a team of militants.
"Helicopter came all the way down low, forcing the vehicle to stop," Elayan said. "" They let us go when they clean up the situation. "He said that misunderstanding clarification, call security agencies. Learned of the incident when a senior officer, he came to the funeral, Elayan said." They do not want to destroy anyone. "
Mursi has been consulting his security team, government officials, political and religious leaders how to solve the crisis in the complex security situation, stressing in the Sinai.
Decades of landmines buried in the sand in the northern Sinai Peninsula killed three children and a woman seriously injured Tuesday night, according to police officials.
Sinai residents have long complained of discrimination and neglect.
The area is ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak's reign in the repeated security crackdown bitter. In the 2000s, Islamic militants attack, prompting the vast expanse of the arrest Peninsula Resort District.
Frequent reports of repression, Sinai detainees tortured, and there is no conclusive test, some detainees have been held for many years. Many detainees family and tribal commitment to resolve their cases have been unfulfilled, fueling resentment.
Only extremist groups in the Sinai Peninsula have increased their activities, since 2011 Mubarak to step down in the collapse of law and order among, as to the neighboring Israeli attacks.
Mursi in August last year for the first time to face the challenge of his Sinai, after taking office, just over a month, when militants carried out the most brazen attack ever army, killing 16 Egyptian soldiers along the Gaza Strip and Israel border. Mursi then vowed to restore stability, introduced a brief military action, leading to closure of some smuggling tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza arrested person is considered to be the heart of kidnapping, Ahmed Aboul Spire.
Abu Spire September sentenced in absentia to death in 2011 at the main police station in northern Sinai attack, killing three policemen were killed. Thirteen people, including seven people absent, has also been sentenced to death in the case.
Those behind the current demand for the release of kidnapped Abu Spire, as well as other 23 militants, some of which date back to 2004 and 2005 bombings in Sinai, Minister of the Interior Ibrahim, who is responsible for the police, the Middle East and North Africa. Human rights organizations have called for a retrial was granted custody after years of Mubarak era emergency law for those convicted under the release of five explosions.
Ibrahim appealed to the "unacceptable", but confirmed that the kidnappers are too well armed to face Tottenham police forces alone.
He said that two months ago, the kidnappers planned operation, and is equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, surface-to-air missiles and other heavy weapons smuggled from Libya.
"They are all weapons Ministry of vehicles alone can not deal with," he said, apparently to explain why the military to join the Sinai operation.
Ibrahim said that his ministry has sent 100 combat units, dozens of armored vehicles, as well as rapid deployment vehicles, so that troops handling about 500 militants in 30 locations.
The military has sent rocket launchers, armored vehicles and troop carriers to the Sinai Peninsula.
This powerful security deposited in the Sinai Peninsula is rare. 1979 Egypt and Israel resume peace agreement between Egypt, Sinai after it was war in 1967 was occupied by Israel. But it is the Egyptian army and the types of weapons restricted numbers may have stop. In most of the peninsula is nothing more than light weapons, police - soldiers - were allowed directly on the boundary of the region.
But in the past few years, the lawless Sinai Peninsula and Gaza smuggling increase lift, Israel insisted on some of the rules.
Egypt's major military operations, demanded that Israel agree to the terms of the peace agreement. Israeli officials declined to comment Tuesday, but in the past, said the new Islamic government security cooperation has remained strong since coming to power. The official silence may be a signal that Israel agreed.
 
 



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