Article: Israeli officials hope cooperation after attacks will lead to greater Egyptian role in Gaza

RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-13-2004
Dateline: JERUSALEM
With a series of devastating explosions, Israel and Egypt suddenly found themselves bound together, victims of a coordinated terror strike that targeted Israeli citizens vacationing on Egyptian soil.

Israeli officials hope the attacks last week, which killed at least 34 people in the Sinai Peninsula _ and the shaky cooperation in the rescue effort that followed _ could mark a thaw in relations between the two countries and spur Egypt to vigorously back Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip next year.

Egyptian officials say only a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian crisis could repair its ties with ...

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