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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Sinai terror attack

Illustrative: In this August 6, 2012 file photo, Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. (AP/Ahmed Gomaa, File)
July 31, 2021, 8:22 pm
5 Egyptian troops killed in Islamic State attack in northern Sinai
Jihadists ambush a military checkpoint in the town of Sheikh Zuweid; sources say 3 attackers killed by security forces
By Agencies
Illustrative: The Taba crossing on the Israeli-Egyptian border, near Eilat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 27, 2019, 9:08 pm
Over 110,000 Israelis visited Sinai over the holiday, ignoring terror warnings
Most have returned to Israel, authorities expect remaining 11,000 tourists to be back in the country by Sunday
By ToI Staff
Israelis enjoy the beach of Paradis Sweir, a desert resort located on the Red Sea shore, South Sinai, Egypt, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 15, 2016. (Johanna Geron/Flash90)
April 22, 2019, 12:58 am
Reverse exodus: Defying terror warning, 20,000+ Israelis in Sinai for Passover
Vacationers ignore ‘a very high concrete threat’ of attacks in Egyptian peninsula beset by Islamist insurgency
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Egyptian army conscripts stand guard outside the Suez Canal University hospital in the eastern port city of Ismailia on November 25, 2017, where the victims of a bomb and gun assault on the North Sinai Rawda mosque a day earlier. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
February 9, 2018, 11:03 am
Egyptian army announces major operation in Sinai, Nile Delta
Military vows to ‘clean up terrorist hotbeds’ in bid to tamp down on jihadist forces
By AFP
Egyptians gather during the funeral of the victims of the attack on the Saint Mina Coptic church, on December 29, 2017, at a church south of the capital Cairo. (AFP PHOTO / Samer ABDALLAH)
January 5, 2018, 10:01 am
Egypt Copts to celebrate Christmas after bloody year
Police boosting security around churches after more than 100 Christians killed in terror attacks in past 12 months
By Aziz El Massassi
Egyptians listen to a Muslim cleric at the Al-Hussein mosque in Cairo during celebrations of the birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, known in Arabic as "al-Mawlid al-Nabawi", on December 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
December 2, 2017, 2:10 am
Worshippers pack Egyptian mosque a week after massacre
North Sinai religious leaders condemn jihadist terrorists who killed more than 300 as ‘cowardly cancer,’ ‘brothers of devils’
By AFP
The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of el-Arish in Egypt's Sinai, after a gun and bombing terror attack, on November 24, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
November 24, 2017, 10:14 pm
Who are the Sufis associated with the mosque attacked in Egypt?
They are considered heretics by Salafists, but in much of the Muslim world Sufism is accepted and practiced by mainstream Muslims
By Samer al-Atrush
Illustrative: This photo posted on a file sharing website Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, by the Islamic State Group in Sinai, shows a deadly attack by terrorists on an Egyptian police checkpoint, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in el-Arish, north Sinai, Egypt. (Islamic State Group in Sinai, via AP)
March 25, 2017, 6:12 pm
Roadside bomb kills 3 policemen in Egypt’s Sinai
Northern Sinai has long been home to an insurgency by terrorists, now led by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group
By AP
An Egyptian vendor sits outside his shop in the tourist area of Al-Hussein in the capital Cairo, October 24, 2016. (AFP/MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
October 30, 2016, 7:36 am
Egypt tourism in limbo a year after Russian plane bombing
Foreign visitor numbers have not bounced back, slashing revenues in cash-strapped economy
By Haitham el-Tabei
Illustrative: Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, July 2013. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny/AFP)
October 2, 2016, 1:09 am
Suspected IS gunmen kill 6 police in Egypt’s restless Sinai
Recent spate of attacks by jihadists in peninsula’s north targets security forces, moderate Muslim leaders
By ASHRAF SWEILLAM
Mount Harif and the road running along the border between Israel and Egypt. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 10, 2016, 6:53 pm
Israel ‘bracing for attack’ by IS in Sinai in next 6 months
Army official tells Telegraph terrorists on southern border are arming themselves with military vehicles, heavy weaponry ahead of likely assault
By 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)
February 24, 2016, 6:40 pm
In first, Egypt’s Sissi says Russian plane downed by ‘terrorism’
Fearing tourism slump, Cairo had maintained technical problems were behind aircraft crash that killed 224 tourists
By AFP
Sammie Olovsson, a 27-year-old tourist from Sweden recovers in bed at the Nile hospital in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada on January 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
January 10, 2016, 1:06 pm
Swedish tourist hurt in Egypt hotel attack leaves hospital
Knife-wielding assailants targeted foreigners at Red Sea resort Friday in latest blow to country’s moribund tourism industry
By 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
American troops belonging to the Multinational Force and Observers prepare for takeoff on the coast of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on January 27, 2004. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
November 19, 2015, 6:18 pm
Israel: Reducing Sinai peacekeepers rewards terrorism
Military official predicts local jihadis will step up attacks if foreign forces cut back in Egyptian peninsula
By Tamar Pileggi
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