Egyptian authorities requested Hamas to open an urgent investigation into three brothers of the Palestinian Shaer family, who kidnapped an Egyptian man by the name of Gamil al-Sayeh from the city of Rafah and took him to the Gaza Strip through (...)
The Al-Tiaha tribe has besieged the Al-Nakhalwa tribe in Sinai since Sunday, accusing it of smuggling Africans and stealing their organs. They killed a Nakhlwa tribesman, whom they believe is involved in human organ trafficking, and arrested his (...)
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas, was handed over to Egyptian authorities on Tuesday, in a swap deal mediated by the Egyptian intelligence service. He was taken in a black sedan through the Rafah Crossing.
An informed source (...)
The Central Israeli Court issued a ruling on Wednesday for the release of three children who have been imprisoned in Israel for three months on allegations of having infiltrated the country. The Israeli prosecution decided not to appeal the case, (...)
Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint on Sunday, in the Tawil district, 15 km north of the city of Arish in Sinai. They exchanged fire with police for an hour and a half, resultilng the wounding of two people.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers (...)
Israel has confirmed in a report that the extra troops it is deploying along the Egypt-Israel border are targeting Palestinian Jihad suspects that plan further attacks on Israel, according to high ranking Egyptian officials.
Israel had announced on (...)
Bin Laden's doctor, Ramzy Moafy, who escaped from prison during the revolution, held military exercises south of Arish in Sinai, informed sources have said.
They said Moafy led the exercises for 40 armed men under the protection of 13 (...)
Egyptian authorities have identified three of the people responsible for carrying out a terrorist attack in Israel, just north of Eilat, on Thursday, in which seven Israelis were killed, according to an Egyptian security source.
The same source (...)
Egyptian security services are trying to identify a suicide bomber who they say killed three Egyptian soldiers at border checkpoint no. 79 on Friday.
According to security sources, a group of Egyptian soldiers approached a young man they saw lying (...)
The Salafi Group in North Sinai, an umbrella organization bringing together Salafis across the governorate, has announced the formation of committees to resolve disputes among the tribes of Rafah, Sheikh Zewayed and Arish through customary tribunals (...)
The Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements have welcomed the decision of the Egyptian authorities to permanently open the Rafah border crossing.
As of Sunday, the crossing will by open from 9 am to 5 pm every day except Fridays.
Women of all ages, as (...)
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has announced that it is making preparations for a test pumping of gas to Jordan and Israel to take place in the next few hours. The prepaprations included raising gas pressure inside the pipline that (...)
An Egyptian policeman was shot dead on Monday by human smuggling gangs and drug dealers near the Egyptian-Israeli border, according to a security source.
Abdel Sattar Farrag, 23, a police officer, was killed following a violent encounter with (...)
Egyptian security authorities discovered on Monday a cache of munitions near the central Sinai city of Nakhal.
Police authorities had received reports about a number of smugglers who were storing large quantities of old wartime munitions to transfer (...)
The "Road to Hope" Humanitarian Aid Convoy is scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian coastal city of Arish on Tuesday.
According to project coordinator Mohamed al-Haddad, the convoy will provide the besieged coastal enclave with 30 ambulances and 95 (...)
Indiscriminate gunfire at a popular market in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid has left a ten-year-old boy dead and a man and women wounded. People at the scene caught one of the shooters and delivered him to police, but several assailants (...)
Egyptian border police injured two Sudanese nationals in a brief exchange of fire while the latter attempted to cross into Israel through Egypt's Rafah border terminal.
The two would-be migrants, whose weapons were seized by police, later told (...)
Eight trucks laden with humanitarian supplies belonging to the "Jerusalem" Libyan aid convoy entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt's Rafah border crossing.
Additional food supplies that still remain in the Egyptian coastal city of Al-Arish are (...)
A bus transporting 30 factory workers to their workplace in the Sinai Peninsula was hijacked by armed men on Tuesday.
The hijackers reportedly released passengers before stealing the bus.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the bus belonged to (...)
Security forces increased their presence along the roads of the central Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an effort to prevent a conference from being held by wanted Bedouin fugitives.
Police set up numerous checkpoints along roads in the area to ensure (...)
North Sinai Bedouin tribes were outraged by remarks made by the province's governor, Mohamed Mourad Muwafi, which they viewed as accusing the Bedouins of aiming to establish a border state, treason, and serving Israel's interests.
Tribal chiefs (...)
Security authorities in the Governorate of North Sinai released 20 Bedouin detainees on Sunday, bringing the total number of detainees released by the government in recent weeks to 98.
Those released include political dissidents, Bedouin tribesmen (...)
Aid supplies from the Libyan ship "El-Amal" began arriving in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after the Israeli navy forced the Gaza-bound vessel to dock at the Egyptian port of El-Arish. The aid was transported into Gaza via the Rafah and Karam Abu Salem (...)
The Libyan humanitarian aid ship heading to the Gaza Strip has reached Arish seaport in Egypt on Thursday, after being forced to enter Egyptian waters by the Israeli navy.
The Egyptian Red Crescent started unloading the ship's 1517-ton cargo to send (...)
In 2007, Sinai activist Mosaad Abu Fajr was imprisoned for allegedly organizing a demonstration against a housing demolition in Salah Eddin, on Egypt's border with Gaza. A vocal promoter of Bedouin rights, Abu Fajr had also just founded the Wedna (...)