Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)

**FILE** Egyptians stand Aug. 5, 2012, outside the El Arish hospital, after an attack which Egypt and Israel blamed on Islamist militants from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** An Israeli soldier examines the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants drove it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt at an Israeli military base on Aug. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak stand next to the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants burst it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt, at an Israeli military base along the border with Egypt, southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. Officials say Egypt has deployed at least two helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula in the hunt for militants behind the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint along the border with Israel. Suspected Islamists on Sunday evening attacked the Egyptian checkpoint, killed the troops, then stole two of their vehicles and burst through a security fence into Israel. Israeli aircraft then halted their assault. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Egyptian border guards patrol Aug. 6, 2012, in Rafah, Egypt, near the border with Israel. Egypt deployed helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula to hunt for the militants who killed at least 16 soldiers the previous day, when the troops at a checkpoint were having the traditional meal at the end of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak (left) and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta meet Aug. 1, 2012, in Tel Aviv. Israel's threats to attack Iran and the violence convulsing Syria top the agenda of Panetta's meetings Wednesday with Israeli government leaders. (Associated Press)