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 the shrines and the surrounding walls were destroyed but no souls were lost.  The desecration of shrines has angered many people in Sinai (Ahmed Abū Dirā', al-Masrī al-Yawm, Aug. 4).  Read original text in Arabic.

Flynne Rushton, Intern