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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Sinai security

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
December 19, 2020, 5:14 am
Pair of bombs kills 3 Egyptian security members in Sinai
Explosives at checkpoints wound 10 in area home to Islamic State-led insurgency
By ASHRAF SWEILAM
Multinational Force & Observers troops stand in formation during a change of command ceremony in Sinai, Egypt, July 15, 2019. (US Army/Staff Sgt. Kulani J. Lakanaria)
May 18, 2020, 6:48 am
US lawmakers oppose defense secretary’s push to withdraw US troops from Sinai
In bipartisan letter to Esper and secretary of state, 12 Congress members call American soldiers in peninsula ‘vital’ to upholding 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
By Marcy Oster
Multinational Force & Observers troops stand in formation during a change of command ceremony in Sinai, Egypt, July 15, 2019. (US Army/Staff Sgt. Kulani J. Lakanaria)
May 8, 2020, 2:25 am
US Defense Department said pushing to withdraw troops from Sinai; Israel opposed
Potential removal of some 400 soldiers from US-led peacekeeping force is opposed by Israel and US State Department, The Wall Street Journal reports
By ToI Staff
A car damaged by a tank shell fired from Sinai, in the Israeli community of Bnei Netzarim, September 28, 2019 (Israel Police)
September 28, 2019, 12:00 pm
Tank shell from Egypt damages synagogue during services at Israeli community
No casualties reported in apparent case of errant fire, as Egypt battles terror groups in adjacent Sinai
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
September 28, 2019, 5:43 am
Terrorist ambush in Egypt’s Sinai kills 7 soldiers, 1 civilian
Islamic State claims attack in town of Bir al-Abed, which also injured 2 soldiers; Egyptian army says it has killed 118 militants in region in recent months
By ToI Staff
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
Mount Harif and the road running along the border between Israel and Egypt. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
November 20, 2017, 7:04 am
IDF soldier injured as patrol comes under fire on Egypt border
Army says incident likely ‘spillover’ from internal fighting in Sinai between Egyptian forces and Islamic State-affiliated groups
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An image taken from a video clip released by the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State group on August 1, 2016. (MEMRI)
February 10, 2017, 6:06 pm
Analysts: Islamic State rocket attack on Eilat was PR, not a sign of things to come
Experts say recent barrage on Israel notwithstanding, Egypt is still group’s main adversary — threatening the Jewish state simply sells
By Judah Ari Gross
Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)
February 9, 2017, 8:49 am
Islamic State claims Eilat rocket attack, threatens more
Group’s Sinai-based affiliate says it fired rockets ‘to teach Jews, crusaders a proxy war will not avail them of anything’
By Dov Lieber
Smoke rises in Egypt's northern Sinai, as seen from the border of the Gaza Strip, amid fierce clashes between government forces and Islamic State-affiliated gunmen on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
March 17, 2016, 5:00 pm
Jihadist attacks in Egypt’s Sinai kill 6 soldiers
Officials say another 10 injured in multiple explosions that rock peninsula’s Gaza-bordering town of Rafah
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
A section of the border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
December 6, 2015, 2:32 am
Some 200 asylum seekers cross into Israel despite Sinai fence
Border barrier has reduced flow of African migrants from over 10,000 per year to a trickle in 2015
By ToI Staff
Security personnel and investigators gather at the scene of a drive-by shooting on a security checkpoint that killed four policemen, near Saqqara, home to the 4,600-year-old Step Pyramid, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 28, 2015. (Photo by AP Photo/Ravy Shaker)
November 29, 2015, 11:52 am
IS group claims killing of 4 Egyptian police
Masked gunmen opened fire near famed Giza pyramids on outskirts of Cairo
By AP and AFP
Egyptian soldiers stand guard outside a polling station in the capital Cairo on November 22, 2015, on the first day of the second and final round of the country's parliamentary elections. (Photo by AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
November 24, 2015, 11:08 am
Three police killed in blast outside north Sinai hotel
At least two election judges injured in car bomb explosion a day after parliamentary polls
By AFP and ToI Staff
File: Debris of the A321 Russian airliner lie on the ground a day after the plane crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015 (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
November 8, 2015, 8:20 am
British jihadis may have been part of Sinai plane bombing
UK intelligence overhears London, Birmingham accents among Islamic State fighters celebrating Metrojet crash
By ToI Staff
Palestinians inspect the damage after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 18, 2015. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
September 18, 2015, 10:16 pm
Egyptian army begins flooding Gaza tunnels
El-Sissi moves ahead with plan designed to thwart Hamas weapons smuggling, terrorism
By Tamar Pileggi
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