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A video posted on YouTube, and said to be genuine by an Islamic State fighter, shows bodies of 250 Syrian soldiers after. Jerusalem and Cairo have been jointly-combating the Islamist insurgency in the Sinai since Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took office in 2013, after the ousting of Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood to which Hamas is affiliated. ISIS executes 250 Syrian soldiers (GRAPHIC CONTENT) Daily Mail Online. Israel shares a 51 kilometer (almost 32 mile) border with Gaza, and 240 kilometer frontier (about 150 miles) with the Sinai. Shipments to the Hamas-controlled enclave are believed to have included Iranian missiles meant for use against Israel’s civilian population. In 20, the IDF reportedly launched airstrikes on weapons convoys from the restive peninsula en route to the Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel is known to have helped its southern neighbor Egypt to b attle Islamic insurgents in the Sinai. In additional verdicts, the Egyptian justices confirmed life terms of another 43 convicts, while upholding 10-year sentences for 23 others and 5-year terms for a further 53 prisoners.Īt least 83 people have been executed in the Arab Republic so far this year, said the Amnesty International human rights organization earlier this month, many in what it described as unfair trials. Yesterday’s decision by the court marks a final ruling.Īnsar Beit Al-Maqdis was formerly known as the “Sinai Province,” but changed its name after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
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The defendants were convicted of carrying out dozens of deadly militant operations, including against state security facilities and officials, according to a judicial source and the state Middle East News Agency (MENA) cited by Reuters. Egypt’s highest civilian court uph eld death sentence s for convicted members of the Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis group. ISIS militants have gone on an execution frenzy in Iraq, murdering at least 20 people in a 48-hour period, including two men found guilty of being gay.