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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Sinai terror

Illustrative: A couple embraces at sunset overlooking Moon Island Camp in Ras Shaitan, Sinai on November 6, 2021. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 13, 2022, 5:12 am
Sinai gears up for Passover tourist rush, with Israel finally letting its people go
Frequent upheavals in the region have fostered resilient businesses now ready to welcome back neighbors who have waited through terror warnings and pandemic closures to return
By Melanie Lidman
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
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
October 12, 2019, 11:49 pm
Egyptian officials say 9 killed in explosion in north Sinai
Blast in Bir al-Abd also wounds six; not immediately clear who was behind shelling as Cairo battles IS insurgency in area
By AP
Illustrative: Lufthansa Airlines planes at the Frankfurt airport in Germany (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
July 22, 2019, 8:32 am
Lufthansa resumes Cairo flights, British Airways stays away
Egypt’s minister of civil aviation meets with Britain’s ambassador, who apologizes for not informing Egyptian authorities before applying week-long flight suspension
By Agencies and 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)
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
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: 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 24, 2018, 9:33 am
Quick victory unlikely in Egypt assault on IS in the Sinai
Security is boosted ahead of this week’s elections, with Jihadists threatening to target voting activities and tourists
By AFP
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, attends the inauguration of the East Suez Canal Counter-Terrorism command, in Sinai, Egypt on February 25, 2018. (MENA via AP)
March 1, 2018, 1:38 am
Egyptian army in Sinai Peninsula doubles in a year, with Israel’s blessing
Eighty-eight Egyptian battalions with 42,000 soldiers fighting Islamic State, up from 41 battalions and 25,000 men a year ago
By ToI Staff
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)
February 11, 2018, 1:47 pm
Egypt hits Sinai targets, killing 16 jihadists and arresting dozens
Military says it has destroyed 66 sites in major crackdown on Islamist insurgency in war-rattled peninsula
By Agencies
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)
December 26, 2017, 1:04 pm
Egypt hangs 15 over attacks on security forces in Sinai Peninsula
Largest mass execution in Egypt since six convicted jihadists were hanged in 2015
By AFP
A view of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, under the control of the Palestinian Authority, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
November 25, 2017, 9:50 am
Gaza-Egypt border to remain closed after Sinai mosque massacre
Scheduled reopening of Rafah crossing delayed in wake of terrorists’ bomb and shooting attack that killed at least 305
By AFP
US President Donald Trump welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to the West Wing of the White House, April 3, 2017. (Mark Wilson Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)
November 24, 2017, 6:28 pm
Trump condemns ‘horrible and cowardly’ mosque attack in Egypt
US president says ‘world cannot tolerate terrorism,’ calls to defeat jihadists and discredit their ideology
By AFP
An Egyptian army watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 6, 2017, 8:17 pm
IS decapitates father, two sons in Sinai border town
The terrorists had raided the family home, killed mother and kidnapped the 3 last week for alleged collaboration with authorities
By ASHRAF SWEILLAM
Illustrative photo of the Taba border crossing between the Israel and Egypt, April 17, 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 21, 2017, 11:03 am
Israel reopens border crossing into Egypt after 11-day closure
But Counter Terrorism Bureau warns Israelis that terror threat in Sinai ‘remains serious, concrete and immediate’
By ToI Staff
The Taba border crossing between Israel and Egypt (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 18, 2017, 10:31 pm
Taba crossing into Egypt to remain closed indefinitely
Counter Terrorism Bureau to reassess closure, put in place last week amid heightened security concerns, ‘over the next few days’
By Judah Ari Gross
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