The Red Sea neighboring cities Eilat (Israel) and Aqaba (Jordan) received rocket fire on the morning of August second. While the shots aimed at Israel landed in the sea, there were injuries in Jordan. Presumably, the rockets were fired from Egypt 10km away and were intended to kill people in Israel exclusively.

Reuters reports:

In Aqaba, there were four people injured. In Eilat, many shots missed the hotel complexes near to the beach and landed in the sea. There were no injuries here. The rockets were apparently fired from the bordering Sinai desert in direct vicinity to Eilat, according to matching reports from Jordan and Israel. A similar attack happened back in April.

In Aqaba there were four people injured, according to statements from the Jordanian interior ministry, who had stopped in front of a luxury hotel near to the beach. One of the victims was seriously injured. Residents told Reuters that a taxi was completely destroyed.

In neighboring Israeli Eilat there were, according to statements from the police, no injuries. According to statements from police chief Moche Cohen, the authorities there followed up on tips from residents that had heard a total of five explosions. Two of the shots indeed fell into the sea, another rocket hit in Aqaba. Even though it was too early for a final statement, he believes that the rockets were fired from the south, that is from the bordering Egyptian Sinai. There have already been countless attempts by Islamist extremists to attack Israel from there.

Eilat was shot on the last time in April. This was the first incident in years on the usually quiet border between Israel and Jordan. Before that Eilat was last met with extremist violence in 2007 when a suicide bomber pushed through the border with Egyptian Sinai protected weakly by a fence and blew himself up in a bakery. Besides the attacker, three people died in the incident.

The federal government in Berlin harshly condemned the rocket attack. A speaker for the government said that the participants in the peace process are not to allow themselves to be provoked by extremists. The shots show once again how important peace is that is based on negotiations. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused up till now to enter into direct negotiations with Israel.

Thus, there are already good suggestions by German foreign policy makers. In any case there exists already a peace accord between Egypt and Israel that is based on negotiations. That didn’t prevent the rocket attack. Thus, one could conclude: a peace based on negotiations with Muslims remains an unsecure matter.

The Red Sea neighboring cities Eilat (Israel) and Aqaba (Jordan) received rocket fire on the morning of August second. While the shots aimed at Israel landed in the sea, there were injuries in Jordan. Presumably, the rockets were fired from Egypt 10km away and were intended to kill people in Israel exclusively. Reuters reports: In Aqaba, ...

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