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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

Merrit Kennedy

Tourists wait in line at the security gate before the check-in counter at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, south Sinai, Egypt, November 6, 2015. (AP/Thomas Hartwell)
November 6, 2015, 11:59 am
Stranded British tourists to start leave Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh
After Cameron says ‘more likely than not’ bomb brought down Russian jet, airlines work overtime to shuttle visitors home
By Merrit Kennedy
In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file photo, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian colleague Baher Mohammed listen in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Amr Nabil)
October 7, 2015, 3:36 am
Journalist released from prison in Egypt leaves country
Mohamed Fahmy received 3-year sentence for purportedly airing ‘false news’ favoring banned Muslim Brotherhood
By Merrit Kennedy
In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file photo, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian colleague Baher Mohammed listen in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Amr Nabil)
September 23, 2015, 9:58 pm
Sissi frees 2 Al-Jazeera journalists
Baher Mohammed, Mohamed Fahmy released as part of mass Eid al-Adha pardon by Egyptian president
By Merrit Kennedy and Maram Mazen
Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi raises his hands from behind the defendant's cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants to death, at the police academy in Cairo on May 16, 2015. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
August 9, 2015, 1:59 am
Egypt’s ousted president said to be refusing food
Islamist ex-leader Mohammed Morsi, sentenced to death, tells court he is diabetic, labels prison fare ‘a crime’
By Merrit Kennedy
A US-made F-15 fighter jet flown by the Royal Saudi Air Force (YouTube screen capture)
July 26, 2015, 2:54 am
Saudi-led airstrikes kill 120 in Yemen coastal town
Attacks on power plant workers’ homes flatten buildings, killing women, children and elderly, officials say
By Merrit Kennedy and Ahmed al-Haj
An Egyptian army watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
July 18, 2015, 11:31 pm
Militants kill 5 at Egyptian military checkpoints in Sinai
At least 7 wounded after gunmen strike checkpoints near town of Sheikh Zuweid with rocket-propelled grenades
By Merrit Kennedy
This undated image made from a video released by Islamic State militants on April 19, 2015, appears to show the killing of a group of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. (Militant video via AP)
April 19, 2015, 6:45 pm
Islamic State releases video of killing of Christians in Libya
In 29-minute clip, jihadist group purports to show its own mass slaughter of Ethiopian captives on North African beach
By Jon Gambrell and Merrit Kennedy
Egyptian security forces stand guard at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, October 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/El Shorouk, Aly Hazzaa)
March 28, 2015, 7:12 pm
Eight injured in blast outside Cairo University
Police sweeping Egyptian capital as bomb goes off near subway entrance to historic campus
By Merrit Kennedy
An Egyptian man wearing a mask of the anonymous movement gestures near a burning car outside a sports stadium in a Cairo's northeast district, on February 8, 2015 during clashes between supporters of Zamalek football club and security forces. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
February 9, 2015, 12:18 am
25 people said killed in Egypt soccer riot
Scores injured in clashes; while security officials claim spectators forced their way into stadium, fans blame police
By Merrit Kennedy
An Egyptian man wearing a mask of the anonymous movement gestures near a burning car outside a sports stadium in a Cairo's northeast district, on February 8, 2015 during clashes between supporters of Zamalek football club and security forces. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
February 8, 2015, 10:42 pm
Report: At least 14 killed in Egypt soccer riot
Scores dead, injured in clashes after security officials claim fans forced their way into stadium
By Merrit Kennedy
Mohammed Fahmy (left), Canadian-Egyptian acting bureau chief of al-Jazeera; Australian correspondent Peter Greste (center); and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed in the defendant's cage during their trial on terror charges, Cairo, May 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hamada Elrasam, File)
February 8, 2015, 9:45 pm
Retrial date set for al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt
Jailed newsmen scheduled to appear in court next week following release of Australian colleague
By Merrit Kennedy
Egyptians gather at a Coptic Christian church in the Waraa neighborhood of Cairo late Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 after gunmen on motorcycles opened fire, killing a woman and wounding several people. (AP Photo/Mohsen Nabil)
January 6, 2015, 8:12 pm
Gunmen kill 2 Egyptian policemen guarding Coptic church
Incident occurs south of Cairo, ahead of Orthodox Christmas Eve; police search for suspects, beef up security
By Merrit Kennedy
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is flanked by members of the high military council as they observe a minute of silence for the soldiers who were killed in the Sinai Peninsula. October 25, 2014 (Photo credit: Egyptian Presidency/AFP)
December 14, 2014, 4:42 am
Egypt sends 439 to military trials over violence
Human Rights Watch blasts move, as Cairo cracks down on dissent
By Merrit Kennedy
Egyptian families collect their belongings as they leave their houses during a military operation in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with the southern Gaza Strip, on October 30, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
November 7, 2014, 11:07 am
Egypt crackdown angers people in Sinai border town
As troops demolish homes to create Gaza buffer zone in bid to thwart terror attacks, they are alienating the local population
By Merrit Kennedy and Fares Akram
An Egyptian policeman in plain clothes sits on the pavement after he was injured during a bomb explosion outside the main gate of Cairo University that wounded at least nine people including a senior officer on October 22, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO /MAHMUD HASAN)
October 22, 2014, 10:36 pm
Bomb outside Cairo University wounds 10
Interior Ministry says six policemen among injured; explosion goes off during clashes with Islamists
By Merrit Kennedy
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