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The Jordanian government has condemned a terrorist attack. Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs and government spokesman Mohammad Momani expressed Jordan's solidarity with Egypt in facing terrorism and rejecting all forms of terrorist acts that aim to destabilise Egypt's security and stability, calling for collective international action to eradicate terrorism.
On 8 May 2022, at least ten soldiers and one officer were killed during an attack at a checkpoint at a water pumping station in El Qantara, [1] Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Five more were injured. [2] Afterwards, chase continued in a secluded part of the Sinai Peninsula. [citation needed] The Islamic State claimed responsibility. [2]
Israel's military blamed an "aerial threat" in the Red Sea region: a possible reference to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement which is known to use drones. Egyptian army spokesperson Colonel ...
The Holy See received news of the attacks while Pope Francis was holding the Palm Sunday mass in front of thousands in St. Peter's Square. The Pope, who was due to visit Egypt on 28 April, offered his condolences to his "brother" Tawadros II and to "all of the dear Egyptian nation" during his speech, while praying for the dead and the wounded.
The first was at the police headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, which were attacked with a large truck bomb just after 06:30 local time. [3] [4] CCTV caught a white truck stop at 06:29 outside the building, with the driver jumping into another car. [5]
Eighty-eight people were killed by the three bombings, the majority of them Egyptians, and over 200 were injured, making the attack the deadliest terrorist action in the history of Egypt, until it was surpassed by the 2017 Sinai mosque attack. The attack took place on Egypt's Revolution Day, a public holiday, and was part of a strategy of ...
The next day, Mahmoud Tawfik the Interior Minister of Egypt, said that the car contained explosives and was to be used in a terrorist operation. [2] The explosives-filled car was on its way to commit an attack in another part of the capital. Tawfik accused the Hasm Movement of carrying out the bombing, but the group denied the allegations. [3]
There were conflicting reports that the bomb was thrown from a balcony or from a motorcycle, [3] but security officials reported that the bomb had exploded under a bench in a garden in the square. A second bomb failed to detonate and was defused. [1] The bombs weighed 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) and contained nails and metal fragments. [3]