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| Egypt PM extends North Sinai curfew for three months | |
| 2015-07-28 | |
[AlAhram] Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has extended for three months a curfew in North Sinai, according to a decree issued in the government's official gazette on Saturday.
The designated areas of the curfew include Rafah, Al-Arish and Sheikh Zuweid cities, and surrounding areas. The curfew was first applied, on 25 October 2014, for three months but has been renewed a number of times. It was originally applied a day after 31 army personnel were killed and 30 injured in a car kaboom. In October, the curfew was 11 hours overnight. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... it was later reduced to eight hours. In April, some local residents expressed their anger at the curfew via the Twitter hashtag #Enough_Curfew and detailed the difficulties it caused. Egypt's army is fighting an Islamist insurrection based in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, which has heightened since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. The violence has largely targeted security forces, killing hundreds over the past two years. Sinai Province, which has pledged allegiance to the 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.... group, has grabbed credit most of the assaults taking place in the peninsula. | |
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