Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies
Author(s): Haitham Ghoniem
Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/development-of-the-military-situation-in-sinai-july/
During July, ISIS local affiliate, ‘Sinai Province’, slaughtered four citizens in the vicinity of North Sinai’s Bir al-Abed on charges of communicating with the Egyptian army and police forces. The question that arises is:
Has the security option, adopted by the regime, succeeded in stopping expansion of the militant organization, or the Egyptian government has chosen to manage the crisis only through pushing ‘Sinai Province’ to deploy in new areas so that the regime may use as a pretext for eviction of their population in the future?!
In this report, we will review the course of military and security operations during July in the Sinai Peninsula.
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