israeli defense minister ehud barak warned Warning that the incident Attack should be a `` wake up call '' for egypt in dealing Resolve_problem with terrorists Terrorism in the sinai peninsula , while egyptian president mohamed morsi vowed Commitment to retake Conquering the sinai peninsula and declared Expressing_publicly three days of mourning Social_event .

a british ship of the line , hms `` swiftsure '' under captain benjamin hallowell was passing Motion_directional westwards through the southern mediterranean near cape derna when it encountered Hostile_encounter a much larger french squadron under contre-amiral UNK ganteaume that was also returning Arriving westwards after a failed attempt to reinforce the besieged Besieging french garrison in egypt .

in his first meeting with a middle east nation since his confirmation as defense secretary , mark esper met with egypt 's minister of defense mohammad zaki and pressed Self_motion him to use Using unk tactics in the effort in the sinai peninsula .

israel seized Hold the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula from egypt , the west bank from jordan , including east jerusalem , and the golan heights from syria .

the town of rafah , lying on gaza 's border with egypt , had been one of two invasion points during the initial incursion by the israel defense forces into the strip on november 1 .

gulf air flight 072 ( unk ) was a scheduled international passenger flight from cairo international airport in egypt to bahrain international airport in bahrain , operated Being_in_operation by gulf air .