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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, center, visits the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
March 23, 2024, 5:18 pm
‘A moral outrage’: At Gaza border, UN chief decries blocked trucks, inadequate aid flow
Visiting Egypt-Rafah crossing, Guterres slams ‘non-stop nightmare’ for Gazans, ‘entire generations wiped out’; FM Katz: UN an ‘antisemitic, anti-Israel lobby’ that ’emboldens’ terror
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A French floating hospital arrives off the coast of Egypt on November 27, 2023. (Emmanuel Macron/X)
November 28, 2023, 8:03 pm
French floating hospital docks off coast of Egypt to treat wounded Gazans
Impact of ship’s 40 beds limited as WHO says 30,000 are wounded in Strip, but Paris also donating to existing field hospitals, rallying international community to boost donations
By Jacob Magid
File: Flames are seen after an explosion at a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 in El-Arish (AP Photo/Ashraf Swailem)
December 25, 2020, 3:27 pm
Explosion hits gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai, no casualties
Authorities probe cause of blast in restive region; officials say blast will not affect supply to el-Arish area
By AP
An explosion during an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in el-Arish, north Sinai, Egypt, on January 9, 2017. (Islamic State Group in Sinai/AP)
October 29, 2019, 11:53 am
Egypt officials: 1 policeman, 13 jihadists killed in Sinai incidents
Attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweid also wounds three cops
By ASHRAF SWEILLAM
An explosion during an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in el-Arish, north Sinai, Egypt, on January 9, 2017. (Islamic State Group in Sinai/AP)
June 5, 2019, 8:03 pm
Islamic State claims attack that killed 8 Egyptian policemen in Sinai
Jihadists boast of two simultaneous assaults on police checkpoints in el-Arish as Muslims mark Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr
By AFP
Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
August 20, 2018, 3:15 pm
Egyptian army captain killed in northern Sinai roadside blast
Medics say officer was hit by improvised bomb, as military wages campaign against jihadists
By AFP
An Egyptian soldier mans a checkpoint in el-Arish, 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of Cairo, North Sinai, Egypt, January 31, 2015 (AP Photo)
August 12, 2018, 2:48 pm
Egyptian security forces kill 12 Islamist terrorists in Sinai
Official news agency says fighting erupted when forces raided hideout in el-Arish; troops dismantled explosive devices, seized weapons during the operation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
July 28, 2018, 7:11 pm
Life returns to Egypt’s Sinai city despite anti-jihadist war
Army opens El Arish to foreign journalists for first time in months, amid ongoing operation against Islamic extremists
By Mona Salem
Illustrative: Egyptians gather at the scene following a bombing that struck a main police station in the capital of the northern Sinai province in el-Arish, Egypt, April 12, 2015. (Muhamed Sabry/AP)
July 11, 2018, 2:31 pm
Egypt says security forces kill 11 terrorists in Sinai
State-run agency says forces dismantled 2 explosive devices after shootout in city of el-Arish
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A woman sits with her children in their shack home near the beach in Gaza City on June 4, 2018. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)
June 18, 2018, 12:24 pm
US said seeking to raise $500 million for Gaza from Gulf states
Funding would reportedly go toward industrial area in Egypt’s Sinai from where electricity, desalinated water would be pumped to Strip
By Stuart Winer
Army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in El-Arish, in the northern Sinai Peninsula in August 2012. (photo credit: AP)
January 9, 2018, 3:57 pm
Egypt says its forces killed 8 suspected jihadists in Sinai
Firefight breaks out during raid on suspected hideout in el-Arish city; weapons seized from group planning attack on security forces, according to Interior Ministry
By Agencies
The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, November 25, 2017.(AFP)
November 27, 2017, 9:28 pm
Op-ed in PA daily claims Israel behind Sinai terror attack
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida columnist blames ‘US, Israel and their pawns’ for jihadists’ mosque massacre of 305
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in New York on September 19, 2017 (Avi Ohayun)
November 25, 2017, 5:59 pm
Israel condemns ‘terrible and despicable’ Sinai mosque massacre
Statement from PM’s office sends condolences to Egyptian nation, urges countries to unite in fight against terror
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Egyptians carry victims on stretchers following a gun and bombing attack on the Rawda mosque near the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish on November 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO)
November 25, 2017, 6:12 am
Hamas, Hezbollah join Israel and US in condemning Egypt mosque attack
Terror groups offer condolences over death of hundreds in bombing, shootings at north Sinai house of worship
By JTA
Egyptians walk past bodies following a gun and bombing attack at the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, on November 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
November 25, 2017, 1:31 am
Egyptian army says it ‘destroyed vehicles’ used in Sinai mosque massacre
No official word on whereabouts, identities of perpetrators of terrorist onslaught that killed at least 305
By AFP and ToI Staff
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