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Israeli Minister holds emergency meetings after Egypt’s disruption of mobile network

March 19, 2018 at 9:14 am

Smart phones [Steve Paine/Flickr]

Israel’s Minister of Communications, Ayoob Kara, has held emergency meetings with representatives of the country’s mobile phone networks and the civic heads of southern communities to discuss the Egyptian army’s allegedly deliberate disruption of the Israeli cell phone coverage, the Globe has reported. The Israeli newspaper explained that people living in southern Israel have not been able to make or receive phone calls or text messages for 20 days.

The Egyptian army has apparently been targeting Israeli mobile telephone infrastructure near the border with Sinai in the belief that Daesh cells in the Peninsula are using Israeli SIM cards in their communications and to detonate improvised explosive devices remotely.

According to the Globe, the Ministry of Communications in Israel has been trying its best to convince Tel Aviv to do something about the problem. It seems, however, that neither the government nor the army shows any enthusiasm to do anything, so the attacks are continuing.

“What Egypt is doing is deliberately harming Israeli sovereignty,” said an Israeli source, “and Israel simply allows it without explaining to the Egyptians the serious nature of their actions.”

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