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UPDATE 4-Gunmen attack Sinai checkpoints close to Israel border
Armed men launched a series of attacks on Sunday on security checkpoints in the North Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and El Arish close to Egypt’s border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, and one soldier was killed.

The attacks were part of a spike in violence in the lawless province since Wednesday’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

Gunmen in pickup trucks exchanged gunfire with soldiers and police in Sheikh Zuweid in the early hours of the morning, but there were no casualties, security sources said.

In two separate attacks by armed assailants on Sunday evening in El Arish, one soldier was killed and a police officer wounded, security sources added.

The army arrested 11 suspected militants after another attack at a checkpoint south of El Arish early on Monday, security sources said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/07/egypt-protests-pipeline-idUSL6N0FD02G20130707

At least 51 killed in Egypt, Islamists call for uprising

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/08/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130708

At least 51 people were killed on Monday when demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt’s elected Islamist president said the army opened fire during morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mohamed Mursi is believed held.

But the military said “a terrorist group” tried to storm the Republican Guard compound and one army officer had been killed and 40 wounded. Soldiers returned fire when they were attacked by armed assailants, according to a military source.

In the deadliest incident since Mursi’s removal, emergency services said more than 430 were wounded.

Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood urged people to rise up against the army, which they accuse of a military coup to topple the leader, threatening an escalation in Egypt’s political crisis.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Urges Followers To Rise Up After Deadly Clashes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-rise-up_n_3560355.html

Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 42 protesters dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party for all-out rebellion against the army.

The carnage outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo — where toppled President Mohammed Morsi was first held last week — marked the single biggest death toll since massive protests forced Morsi’s government from power and brought in an interim civilian administration.

Even before all the bodies were counted, with more than 300 wounded, there were conflicting accounts on how the violence began. Morsi’s backers said the troops attacked their encampment without provocation just after dawn prayers. The military said it came under assault first by gunmen.

Egypt’s top Muslim cleric warned of “civil war” and said he was going into seclusion as a show of protest to both sides until the violence ends.

Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Al-Azhar Mosque, said he had “no choice” but to seclude himself at home “until everyone shoulders his responsibility to stop the bloodshed instead of dragging the country into civil war.”

Egypt on verge of civil war after 40 pro-Morsi protesters are killed and 300 injured trying to storm military HQ
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Military claim gunmen shot at troops at Republican Guard building in Cairo
But Muslim Brotherhood say army opened fire on protesters during prayers
Islamist party withdraws from transition talks in response to ‘massacre’
Middle East envoy Tony Blair says collapse of Egypt would be ‘devastating’
Interim administration urges protesters not to approach military installations

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358126/Egypt-unrest-40-pro-Morsi-protesters-killed-300-injured-trying-storm-military-HQ.html

Islamic lynch mob waving Al Qaeda banners throw terrified teenage boy off 20ft ledge before beating him to death
Teenagers thrown off rooftop ledge by Morsi supporters in Alexandria
Were celebrating ousting of Islamist leader when they met pro-Morsi mob
One of the members of the mob were carrying an al-Qaeda flag
Two boys are thrown off the ledge and beaten as they lie motionless
One of them, aged 19, was killed, according to local media

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357764/Islamic-lynch-mob-waving-al-Qaeda-banners-throw-terrified-teenage-boys-20ft-ledge-beating-lie-injured-floor.html

Also on Sunday, jihadists attacked five military checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid near the border with Israel. Gunmen opened fire on security officers from pickup trucks, killing one Egyptian soldier and wounding a police officer, the Egypt Independent reported.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2013/July/Sunday-Brings-Highest-Death-Toll-in-Egypt/