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Tag: Rafah
Egypt: Militant Attacks Kill Christian Priest & Two Security Personnel
IS-affiliate Islamists killed a Christian priest and two security personnel in turbulent North Sinai in separate attacks on Thursday, authorities said. The Coptic priest named ... Read More
Palestine: Hamas Seeks to Smooth Ties with Cairo
The Hamas delegation that arrived in Cairo on Saturday held its second round of meetings with Egyptian security officials on Sunday in a bid to ... Read More
Egypt: IS Jihadist group blows up gas pipeline to Jordan in Sinai
IS-link group in Sinai Province Thursday claimed it destroyed gas pipeline supplying Jordan amid Egyptian forces’ claims they have killed dozens of militants recently. "By ... Read More
Egypt: military trash 26 terrorists in North Sinai
Egyptian military sources Sunday indicated that the army killed 26 terrorists and arrested five suspects in military raid in a move to weed out IS-affiliated ... Read More
Egypt: 15 migrants found shot dead at Egypt-Israel border
Egyptian security and medical officials Sunday indicated that they discovered 15 African migrants shot dead in Rafah, in North Sinai. Circumstances of their death are ... Read More
Egypt: U.S to increase forces in the Sinai
The Pentagon will increase the number of its troops present in the Sinai peninsula under the Multinational Force of Observers (MOF) to more than 700 ... Read More
Egypt: Islamic State claims responsibility for Rafah attack
The Islamic State said Thursday it was behind the armed assault outside a checkpoint in el-Mahdiya village in Rafah, a town on the border with ... Read More
Egypt: Cairo re-opened Rafah border allowing Palestinians to return home
Egyptian authorities re-opened on Tuesday Rafah crossing point allowing Palestinians to return to homes in Gaza. Closed since March after Egyptian authorities complained about security ... Read More
The inconvenient truth : Arab states failure to support Palestinians
Notwithstanding passionate discourses against Western responsibility and “Zionist conspiracy”, commitment to the Palestinian cause has not translated into any support. “Israel is an abnormal ... Read More
Egypt establishing Sinai buffer zone
The Egyptian military has begun operations to set up a 500meter wide and 10kilometre long buffer zone on its border with Gaza. Bulldozers have knocked ... Read More