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Category Archives: Gaza
Egypt’s New Terrorist Groups
I was planning to write something completely different this weekend, but the events in Egypt have dictated my choice. An Egyptian policeman gestures from an observation in the Sinai peninsula, February 10, 2016, and an undated photograph of Brig. … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt, Gaza, Sinai, Terrorism
Tagged Adel Ragai, Egypt, Egyptian Army, Hasm, ISIS, Liwaa Al-Thawra, Muslim Brotherhood, Sinai
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New Players on the Gaza Front
(Islamic Jihad’s Ramadan Shallah) The growing hostility between Egypt and the Palestinian group Hamas, especially following an Egyptian court’s verdict that … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Gaza, Hamas
Tagged Abbas, Egypt, Gaza, IS, ISIS, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Mahmoud Dahlan, Sinai, Terrorism, Turkey
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For Hamas, Egypt is now the new “Israel”
(Photo via Reuters) For the Egyptian leadership and Hamas, February was a particularly bad month. The tension between the two sides has reached tipping point. The cascade of escalating events started with a court verdict listing Hamas’s armed wing as … Continue reading
Lessons for Sinai from Yemen
(Egyptian air force chief adel Hafez with air force pilots in Yemen. 1964. wikimedia photo) I wrote this piece for The Atlantic Council’s Egypt Source, hope you like it Following the recent major attacks by militants that killed at least twenty-seven … Continue reading
Posted in Best Read, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Sinai, Yemen
Tagged Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, Counter-terrorism, ISIS, Sinai, Sisi, Terrorism, Yemen
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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 44 ( Oct 27- Nov 2)
(A house was blown up during a military operation to create a buffer zone in Rafah) (via AFP) Main Headlines Monday New law refers crimes against “vital” facilities to military prosecution Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 23 others have been detained on the … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt, Gaza
Tagged democracy, Egypt, middle-east, politics, Sinai, Sisi
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Gaza cease-fire might lead to indirect Egypt involvement
( Kids in Gaza celebrate the ceasefire agreement, via Twitter) I wrote this piece for Al-Monitor, warning that in the future a failed Gaza can easily end its existence as an autonomous entity, and snooker Egypt into a … Continue reading
Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 34 ( Aug 18-24)
Main Headlines Monday Policeman was killed in an attack at checkpoint in northern Egypt Leftist and liberal parties form parliamentary coalition Egyptian interior minister says Rabaa will be remembered for police martyrs Egypt, Norway to co-host Gaza conference Ministry of … Continue reading
Profile: Hamas’s Mohammed Deif
A rare video image of Deif in 2005 via Ma’an News The war in Gaza has brought the focus back on Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, and its mysterious leader Mohammed Al-Deif. Here is a collection of old and … Continue reading
Sisi, Islamic Jihad, and Gaza
(Islamic Jihad and Hamas delegation in Cairo, via Twitter) The war in Gaza has highlighted the tense relationship between Egypt and the Palestinian factions, mainly Hamas, in Gaza. However, it seems Cairo does not view all factions with one lens, … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Gaza, Middle East, Palestine
Tagged Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Israel
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The myth of Sisi’s Sinai proposal
(Photo via Cairo Post) Initially published in Al-Monitor A few days ago, a claim surfaced that Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered to give part of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians to expand the Gaza Strip and create a … Continue reading →