JERUSALEM ? Three gunmen who crossed into Israel from Egypt?s Sinai Peninsula on Friday were killed in a firefight after wounding two Israeli soldiers on the border, one of them critically, the Israeli army said.
The gunmen crossed in a mountainous area along the desert border, where a fence that Israel is building has yet to be completed, an army spokesman said. One wore an explosive belt, which detonated during the clash.
The Israeli soldiers who were attacked were securing the construction zone. An additional force patrolling the area engaged the gunmen, the spokesman said.
The incident was the latest of several cross-border attacks that have stirred Israeli concern about a rising security threat from Sinai, where lawlessness has spread since the Egyptian revolution last year.
In addition to the attacks, Islamist militants and local Bedouin tribesmen have assaulted Egyptian police stations in Sinai and blown up pipelines carrying natural gas to Israel.
An attack by militants last month on an Egyptian base near the border town of Rafah left 16 soldiers dead, prompting an extensive crackdown on the militants by reinforced Egyptian forces dispatched to Sinai. �
In June, militants who crossed the border into Israel attacked vehicles carrying a construction crew that was working on the fence, killing one worker.
In August 2011, an attack on a border road north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat left eight Israelis dead.
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