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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Sinai Province

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace, Monday, December 7, 2020 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
October 13, 2021, 9:09 pm
Egyptian court upholds life sentences for 32 convicted of plot to kill Sissi
The court ‘decided to reject all appeals’ and uphold the verdict for all but two defendants, says attorney Khaled al-Masry
By AFP
In this frame grab from Egyptian State Television, a blindfolded Hisham el-Ashmawi is escorted by Egyptian military officers and placed in a vehicle after being taken off a military plane at an airport in Cairo, Egypt, May 29, 2019 (Egyptian State Television via AP)
March 4, 2020, 2:42 pm
Egyptian army says high-profile Islamic jihadist executed
Hisham el-Ashmawi, who left the military in 2011 and became a leader in driving attacks on officials, had been affiliated with Islamic State, al-Qaeda terror groups
By Samy Magdy
Egyptian army soldiers stand guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, July 5, 2013. (AP/Hatem Moussa)
February 11, 2020, 8:29 pm
Egyptian forces kill 17 jihadists in north Sinai
Police raid hideout of ‘terrorist elements’ in provincial capital of El-Arish, find weapons and explosives, officials say
By AFP
Flames rise from a gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt in July, 2012. The pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan has been attacked many times since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. (AP/File)
February 3, 2020, 9:35 pm
Islamic State claims purported attack on Egypt-Israel gas pipeline in Sinai
Though sources said attacked pipe was a domestic one, jihadist group insists it ‘targeted… the natural gas line linking the Jews and the apostate Egyptian government’
By AFP
Illustrative: Defendants in Egypt listen to their verdict from a soundproof glass cage inside a makeshift courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, July 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
February 1, 2020, 1:29 pm
Egypt weighs death sentences for 37 Islamic State jihadists
Among those who could be executed are Hisham el-Ashmawi, a former army officer who became a prominent leader in the extremist group
By Samy Magdy
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)
June 8, 2019, 4:57 pm
Egypt says 4 jihadists killed in restive northern Sinai
Security forces storm hideout in coastal town of el-Arish days after Islamic State-claimed attack at nearby police checkpoint killed 8 officers
By Agencies
In this November 3, 2018 file photo, coffins of Coptic Christians slain in an Islamic State terror attack lie in the Church of Great Martyr Prince Tadros during their funeral service in Minya, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
November 4, 2018, 3:11 pm
Egypt says it killed 19 in shootout with perpetrators of attack on Christians
Gunmen had killed 7 pilgrims Friday in Islamic State assault on the road to remote desert monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor
By Hamza Hendawi
A picture taken on November 28, 2017 from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing following an explosion close to the border on the Egyptian side of the divided city. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)
May 1, 2018, 4:36 pm
Residents of south warned about planned ‘massive’ Egypt assault on IS affiliate
Eshkol Regional Council says loud bombardments will be heard, as Cairo continues effort to regain control in Sinai
By Judah Ari Gross and AFP
Egyptian army soldiers patrol the Cairo-Ismailia desert road in Egypt, August 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
April 18, 2018, 3:37 pm
Egypt army says it killed Islamic State leader in Sinai
Nasser Abu Zaqul led jihadists in the mountainous center of the peninsula, according to military
By AFP
Illustrative: A picture taken on November 28, 2017, from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing following an explosion close to the border on the Egyptian side of the divided city. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
March 19, 2018, 10:59 am
4 Egyptian troops killed, 8 wounded in Sinai fighting
Egypt’s military says 36 jihadists killed in peninsula over past 5 days as part of widespread operation
By AP
Radical Islamists in Egypt dream of turning the most populous Arab country into a religious state. The headband reads: 'No God but God and Mohammed is his messenger.' (AP/Amr Nabil)
January 2, 2018, 4:00 pm
Egypt executes 4 jihadists over 2015 bomb attack
Latest cases bring to 19 the number of Islamist fighters put to death by Egyptian government over the past week
By AP
A picture taken on November 25, 2017, shows the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
December 2, 2017, 6:15 pm
Egyptian TV panelists pin Sinai mosque massacre on Israel and ‘the Jews’
Participants in debate say attack in which over 300 were killed is part of Mossad plot to empty peninsula of its inhabitants, replace them with Palestinians
By ToI Staff
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 29, 2017, 3:30 pm
Islamic State silent on Egypt massacre decried even by its supporters
Almost a week after the Friday killing of over 300 worshipers by terrorists flying jihadist flags, group has yet to claim the attack
By Samer al-Atrush
Illustrative: A picture taken on November 28, 2017, from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing following an explosion close to the border on the Egyptian side of the divided city. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
November 28, 2017, 7:22 pm
Egyptian police kill 11 suspected terrorists in shootout
Cairo’s interior ministry says ‘terrorist elements’ killed in raid provided support to jihadists in Sinai Peninsula
By Agencies
View of the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, on November 24, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
November 25, 2017, 7:44 pm
Mosque attack is a testament to Egypt’s impotence in Sinai
For now Cairo may be able to afford to let insurgents and local tribes battle it out, but eventually the terrorists will hit closer to home
By Avi Issacharoff
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