Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered that former president Hosni Mubarak to be moved from his hospital in a Red Sea resort town to a military facility, the state news agency reported.

Israel has today issued an “urgent” warning to its citizens to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula immediately.

Four intrepid cyclists on an epic 6,000km fundraising trip to Gaza were today refused entry to the troubled state.

Israeli jets and ground troops continued to hammer Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and Islamic militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities, defying a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

DOZENS were feared killed after last night’s bomb attack hit an Egyptian resort at the height of the tourist season.

Three explosions tonight rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 18 people and wounding more 150 at just one hotel, according to police and rescuers.

Israel’s terror alert for the Sinai desert is based on information that Arab militants planning attacks against Israelis are already located in the resort area, an official said today.

Palestinians will not open their border with Egypt unilaterally, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said today, answering Israeli concerns and illustrating how much the poverty-stricken seaside territory remains dependent on its Jewish neighbour, despite Israel’s pullout.

ISRAEL and the Palestinian Authority yesterday said they feared al-Qaida terrorists will infiltrate Gaza through the Gaza-Egypt border.

Violence between Jewish settlers and soldiers erupted in a West Bank extremist stronghold as the evacuation of Gaza neared completion, with only one settlement left to be emptied and others already turned into piles of rubble by Israeli bulldozers.

Jewish settlements earmarked for evacuation have shown marked population growth, according to Interior Ministry figures released yesterday, and settlers said supporters are moving to these communities to strengthen them ahead of the planned withdrawal.

TWO columnists on this page recently went into the business of prophecy. One was Pat Brosnan, who attacked the initially proposed Government aid for tsunami victims as ‘paltry’, ‘risible’ and ‘peanuts’ and added the prophecy that by the time readers would see his column in the newspaper, the Government might have increased the sum offered.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened an emergency Cabinet session today to discuss terror attacks at two Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis.