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Booby traps set by ISIS in Sinai kill at least 14 in 2 weeks
Israel Hayom ^ | 10/25/2020 | AP and ILH Staff

Posted on 10/25/2020 9:32:09 AM PDT by xomething

More than a dozen civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Egypt's restive northern Sinai Peninsula over the past two weeks from explosive devices laid down in their homes by terrorists...

Islamic State members attacked several villages in the town of Bir al-Abd in July, forcing people to flee their homes....

The ISIS members, however, had laid booby traps in several houses that killed at least 14 people, including six from the same family ...

At least 10 others have been wounded since Oct. 12...

The tribes of North Sinai have been heavily targeted by terrorists who view their veneration of Muslim saints and shrines as heretical, forcing a mass exodus...

...the military overthrew the country's Islamist president in 2013...Extremists have since carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting security forces and minority Christians....

The conflict has largely taken place out of public view...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelhayom.com ...


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1 posted on 10/25/2020 9:32:09 AM PDT by xomething
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Iran, or Turkey?

2 posted on 10/25/2020 9:58:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: xomething

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3 posted on 10/25/2020 10:01:19 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

4 posted on 10/25/2020 10:12:31 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Located next to Gaza...


5 posted on 10/25/2020 10:15:15 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: xomething

Won’t they be surprised when they find there are no virgins in hell?

rwood


6 posted on 10/25/2020 10:42:27 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Menehune56
Thank goodness, I was worried that the relentless centuries-long violence would be found in a wider area.
Rimshot - Ba dum tssshhh

7 posted on 10/25/2020 6:07:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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