CAIRO/JERUSALEM – Egyptian demonstrators who stormed the building housing Israel's embassy in Cairo on Friday reached the entrance hall but had not yet got inside the mission itself, an Israeli official said.
Speaking in Jerusalem where the Foreign Ministry was monitoring events in Cairo, the official said Israeli diplomatic documents thrown from the windows of the tower housing the embassy appeared to be "pamphlets and forms kept at the foyer".
"The embassy itself has not been breached," the official told Reuters.
Some documents were seen to be thrown from the Israeli embassy which occupies the top of a 22-store building overlooking Nile in Giza district.
Eyewitnesses told Al-Masry Al-Youm that one of the documents contains a tariff form of an Israeli citizen residing in Cairo. Other documents including a formal request for the Egyptian Interior Ministry to provide handgun carry permits for the embassy’s personnel.
