Source : Egypt Independent
Anonymous gunmen fired at a car owned by international peacekeeping forces in Si Thursday. The incident occurred several hours after a Bedouin was killed and anot injured by security forces near the peacekeepers' camp in the Goura area of North Sinai.
Authorities are searching for the shooters.
The observer mission is stationed in Sinai to monitor the 1979 peace treaty with neighbor Israel. Dozens of Bedouins staged a sit-in outside the mission's camp to protest Israeli ra on the Gaza Strip.
A military source in North Sinai said security forces at a checkpoint near the camp return fire when protesters shot toward the checkpoint and that the observer mission was responsible for the shooting. Armed Forces spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali told Al-Ma Al-Youm that 40 Goura area residents gathered outside the local airport to demand t convictions their relatives had received in absentia be dropped. The protesters then fi toward a checkpoint and security forces fired back.
Protester Gihad Mosallam Selmy was shot dead and Selmy Salem Saeed was injured, Masry Al-Youm quoted an informed source as saying.
Bedouins drove a convoy of about 10 trucks to the site and set tires on fire in front of camp.
Bedouins have protested outside the camp on several occasions. In a recent incident, th stormed the camp, smashed the control tower and injured three Colombian soldiers.
Fiji, New Zealand, Colombia, Uruguay, Canada, Australia, Norway, Italy, France, Hungary a the US contribute troops to the force.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
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