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Clashes on Aswan Island

Posted on By 3arabawy

It is happening again, this time in Aswan.

Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile River.

Police detained 11 from the island’s youth, but around 1000 residents showed up in front of the prosecutor demonstrating, forcing the government to release the detainees, stop the building of the tower on the island, in exchange for the residents compensating the company for the construction materials they threw in the river.

More details in Arabic from Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Palestinian resistance reject foreign troops

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From Al-Jazeera:

The armed wing of Hamas has rejected calls by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing to attack them like other “occupation forces”.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Saturday: “We will only receive these forces with shells and rockets.”
In talks on Friday with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, Abbas had called for deployment of international forces into Gaza where Hamas routed his forces on June 15.