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Date of source: Friday, October 5, 2012
Informed sources in North Sinai said President Mursī’s scheduled visit to the governorate on Friday (October 5) was changed due to deteriorating security conditions in the border city of Rafah.
Date of source: Thursday, October 4, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī, during his visit to North Sinai governorate on Friday (October 5), will meet with the Copts of Rafah who received threats from extremist groups, while official security sources said the visit coincides with the end of the second stage of a military operation in Sinai.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2012
Several tribes of Sinai said the interior minister approved arming the local residents there to participate in the protection of their own lands while people of the Mīt Khaqān village, Shibīn al-Kūm town headed to the al-Ismā’īlīyah Hospital to receive the bodies of their relatives culprits of the...
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2012
A fact-finding commission, set up by the National Council for Human Rights, embarked on Thursday (October 11) on probing the conditions of Christian families in Rafah after reports some of them were forced to relocate to other areas following threats by outlaw groups.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Armored security patrols are in place to secure all of the troubled Egyptian city of Rafah, said a military source, adding news reports about a shooting attack on a Copt’s house on Saturday (October 6) were bare of truth.
Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Nine Coptic families in Egyptian Rafah started packing up and leaving to the city of al-‘Arīsh following recent threats a few days ago as some members of those families said they are relocating to ‘Arīsh after the governor approved to send them there, where there are no dwelling places available.
Date of source: Monday, September 2, 2013
Security sources said that Hānā Samīr Kāmil, 37, was shot in the Masā’īd district of al-‘Arīsh yesterday afternoon (Sept. 1). The culprits, who are likely affiliated with jihadi groups, fled in a car. Passers-by took Kāmil to the al-‘Arīsh General Hospital, but he died as soon as they reached the...
Date of source: Monday, August 5, 2013
Armed men blew up two Muslim shrines with explosives, in separate areas in the North Sinai (evening, Sunday 4). Security sources said that the explosives had been placed next to Sheikh Hamīd Abū Jarīr and Sheikh Salīm es-Sherīf Abū Jarīr's tombs and detonated them from a distance. The two domes of...
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