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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					05/02/2011 &#8211; 10:20 AM ] </span></td>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;">CAIRO, (PIC)&#8211; A massive explosion on  Saturday closed a pipeline running through the Egyptian Sinai peninsula  supplying natural gas to Israel.</p>
<p>Israeli media outlets predicted a similar incident would take place a few days earlier.</p>
<p>El  Arish residents said they heard a large explosion, which was discovered  to have occurred between the cities of El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid just a  few kilometers away from a residential area.</p>
<p>Egyptian officials have managed to close the pipe and said an investigation into the explosion will be made.</p>
<p>Emergency units have begun to contain the fire.</p>
<p>The  Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper warned earlier that current  instability in Egypt could be detrimental to the country&#8217;s supply of  natural gas to Israel.</p>
<p>The electricity company&#8217;s back-up supply  of natural gas would last for only a short time if the pipelines were  disrupted, the paper said Sunday.</p>
<p>Egypt provides 40 per cent of  the gas supply of Israel, which has made two billion dollars in yearly  profits after the QIZ agreement signed in 2005, as well as another  billion dollars a year from Egyptian gas sold in occupied Palestinian  territories.</span></td>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7H1k9bsi2Ae2A%2f7ka2ChKmn2BeFz2pBYm8XqaPo8WgRiMwI784F%2fiiO8K0TgsYyeY1TCtn7TZVXxpeimIdJAfeYc6KODlbvkyFIPzXzjiNwA%3d">Explosion in Sinai closes pipeline supplying Israel</a>.</p>
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