[Onthebarricades] EGYPT: Bedouin protest police violence, aid Palestinians

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      Palestinian security forces sealing a tunnel in Rafah used for smuggling munitions from Sinai into Gaza. (AP)
     
     

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            Egyptian police seize 1.5 tonnes of explosives in central Sinai 
           
            By Reuters 
           
            Egyptian police seized 1.5 tonnes of explosives in central Sinai on Monday, Egyptian security officials said, adding they suspected the material had been destined to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

            One Egyptian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that security forces on a routine patrol found the explosives packed in 40 sacks and hidden in a mountainous area. 

            Egyptian police routinely find large quantities of explosives and ammunition in Sinai, sometimes hidden in tunnels near the border with neighbouring Gaza.


           
           
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            Tension have also mounted recently between Egyptian police and Sinai Bedouin who took to the streets in April over the deaths of two Bedouin in a chase with the police.

            Hundreds of Bedouin later massed near the border with Israel seeking to enter the country because of what they describe as the poor treatment they receive from Egyptian authorities.

            Egypt has blamed a group of Islamist Sinai Bedouin sympathetic with the Palestinians for attacks on resorts popular with Israeli tourists in the peninsula since 2004.

            Bedouin and human rights groups say Egyptian security services launched campaigns of arbitrary arrests of Bedouin after each attack, fuelling public anger in Sinai.

           
     
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