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Campaign against Islamic State in Egypt is creating a humanitarian crisis, says rights group
[WASHINGTONPOST] A humanitarian crisis is emerging in Egypt’s volatile northern Sinai province, Human Rights Watch said Monday.An Egyptian military campaign launched in February against an active Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... affiliate is choking off food, medicines and other vital supplies to an estimated 420,000 residents of four northern cities in need of assistance, the group said in a report. Security forces, in a quest to weaken the Islamic State branch, known as Wilayat Sinai, have imposed barriers on the movement of people and goods in northern Sinai, including blocking roads and other transport arteries. That has triggered shortages of food, medicines, cooking gas and other essentials. There are large-scale electricity and water shortages in much of the eastern part of northern Sinai province, aggravating residents’ woes. "A counterterrorism operation that imperils the flow of essential goods to hundreds of thousands of civilians is unlawful and unlikely to stem violence," Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2018-04-25 |
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