May 10, 2016 Meet the Middle East

Netanyahu says he threatened force in 2011 Cairo embassy siege

"Here, several years ago, in the situation room of the ministry of foreign affairs, we dealt with a siege that grew ever tighter around our people in the Israeli embassy in Cairo," he told an annual memorial ceremony for ministry staff killed on duty overseas."A wild mob came to slaughter our people and that night we worked with all the tools at our disposal, including threats to extract them using the Israel Defence Forces, which finally tipped the scale," his office quoted him as saying in statements issued in Hebrew and English.
Source: Albawaba
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