Egypt: Army Intensifies Sinai Home Demolitions

Source: Human Rights Watch

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Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/22/egypt-army-intensifies-sinai-home-demolitions

(Beirut) – The Egyptian army has vastly expanded widespread destruction of homes, commercial buildings, and farms in the North Sinai governorate since February 9, 2018, as part of its military campaign against an affiliate of the Islamic State group there, Human Rights Watch said today. The new destruction, including hundreds of hectares of farmland and at least 3,000 homes and commercial buildings, together with 600 buildings destroyed in January, is the largest since the army officially began evictions in 2014.

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