Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready On Tuesday Egyptian warplanes launched airstrikes on North Sinai in response to the death of a senior army brigadier who was killed after Wilayat Sinai targeted his vehicle. Local sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that fighter planes hit the city of Sheikh Zuweid and west of the town of Rafah. Rafah city, which sits on the border with Gaza, has been completely destroyed by the Egyptian military with estimates that more than 50 villages were wiped out, 120,000 hectares of green spaces destroyed and 100,000 residents displaced. Sources estimate the government has displaced more than 300,000 people from the 600,000 Bedouin in Sinai. More than 20,000 are dead or forcibly disappeared. All … Continue reading Egypt’s air strikes on Sinai good timing for $1.3bn US military aid package