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30 arrested in Rafah on suspicion of smuggling fuel to Gaza

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From the Daily News Egypt…

Around 30 members of the same family were arrested from a neighborhood in the border town of Rafah on suspicion of smuggling solaar gas into Gaza.
According to sources in the area, 30 members of the Barahma family — part of the Barghoum tribe — were taken after security forces completely surrounded the neighborhood of Canada in Rafah all day Wednesday.
Additionally, the sources indicated that three women were also taken as some sort of “collateral” until their husbands turn themselves in. They also said that one member of that particular family had assaulted a border guard and the security mission was a retaliatory gesture.

Egypt resumes pumping gas to Israel

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Via Zeinobia:

Egypt has resumed pumping natural gas to Israel after technical difficulties brought supply to a halt for a week.
The Israeli press had reported at the time that Egypt was struggling to cope with the demand on its gas exports and had scaled down the supply specifically to countries who are buying it at lower than market prices such as Israel.
However, Egyptian experts attributed the halt to a technical failure in the compression system, and correctly predicted that the supply would flow again once the error was fixed.
“This [halt] is due to a technical fault in the compressors and they are fixing it,” petroleum expert Ibrahim Zahran previously told Daily News Egypt.
The gas deal to Israel has been met with widespread condemnation in Egypt, not only because of the recipient but also due to the extremely favorable price of the contract, a fraction of the market price for natural gas.