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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.
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 international Muslim Brotherhood condemned the attack as "painfully tragic" and that "the blood of the innocent will be a curse on the oppressors" whilst stating blame was due to the government which took power after the 2013 coup in Egypt. [67] After the attacks, Israel closed the Taba Border Crossing with Egypt. [68]
On 8 October 2023, a police officer fired his gun into a group of bus passengers in Alexandria, Egypt. [1] The attack occurred during a trip past Pompey's Pillar. [2] Two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide were killed, and another Israeli was wounded. [3]
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]
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 ...
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]
Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi identified the bomber as 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa, who had worn a suicide vest. el-Sisi reported that three men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the attack; two others are being sought. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. [7] [8] [9]