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February 11th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A section of a natural gas pipeline has been blown up south of el-Arish, northern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt security sources say.
The explosion occurred during the early hours of Tuesday.
The pipeline provides gas to Jordan and some plants in Sinai, the sources were quoted as saying by Xinhua.
No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties have been reported either.
In recent months, militants have repeatedly targeted pipelines in the region.
On January 27, militants blew up a part of a pipeline in an area called Muqtadiba, south of el-Arish.
Earlier in the same month, militants detonated a section of a pipeline that carries gas to an industrial zone in Sinai.
In addition to attacks on pipelines, militant assaults on Egyptian police and security forces have escalated in Sinai following the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, in July 2013.
On January 25, five Egyptian soldiers died after a military helicopter was shot down by militants near the village of el-Kharouba in northern Sinai.
Last August, militants ambushed a police convoy in the region in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in decades. More than two dozen police officers were killed in the attack, which took place close to the town of Rafah on the Gaza border.
In August 2012, sixteen Egyptian soldiers were killed in an attack on a police station near the border with Gaza.
In response, Cairo launched an offensive against militants in Sinai, sending thousands of troops backed by tanks and heavy equipment into the region.
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