During the past few years, the Egyptian armed forces have destroyed about 10,000 four-wheel drive vehicles on the Egyptian-Libyan border, according to an announcement by Presidency Spokesperson Bassam Rady.
The vehicles, Rady added, carried more than 40,000 terrorists and foreign fighters.
Rady went on to say that the Libyan situation is complicated, since it has many conflicts of interests like other crises in the region, and that Egypt secures its 1,200 kilometer-long border with Libya with a singular effort, which costs the state many resources.
He added that diplomatic and political solutions take a longer time when there are many parties involved in a crisis, whether internal parties or foreign powers...
The Libyan parliament last week granted the Egyptian armed forces the right to intervene in the country's ongoing conflict to protect Libyan and Egyptian national security.
The decision allows Egypt to intervene if the Egyptian armed forces see an imminent threat to the security of the two countries.Egypt destroys 10,000 vehicles on Libyan border: presidency spokesperson [July 17, 2020]
It should have said:
During the past few years, the Egyptian armed forces have destroyed about 10,000 ENEMY four-wheel drive vehicles on the Egyptian-Libyan border, according to an announcement by Presidency Spokesperson Bassam Rady.
When I first read it, I thought they’d somehow through ineptitude destroyed their own vehicles.