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Eyewitness News
February 11, 2018
Apart from Sinai, the Egyptian army said the operation would also cover parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert, where other militants have waged attacks, some believed to be staged out of neighbouring Libya. State television said on Friday that all schools in North Sinai had been ordered shut fromÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 9, 2018
Satterfield is known to both Lebanon and Israel, as a former U.S. ambassador to Beirut and former head of the international peacekeeping force in Egypt's Sinai desert, a role that put him in regular touch with Israeli security officials. Asked about Satterfield's Lebanon visit, the spokesman for the U.S.ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 8, 2018
The story is eerily familiar. Fear and flight, death and despair, oppression in Egypt and the perilous journey across the Sinai Desert to reach the Promised Land. This Passover, in thousands of Israeli homes, the Exodus story will be told — but this time, not from old, wine-stained pages. Instead, we will listenÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 5, 2018
He crossed the Sinai Desert into Israel at 13, one of the 38,000 African asylum seekers currently in Israel according to government data. Many of them about to be given the bleak choice of either being deported to Africa or going to prison for an indefinite period. Within this group of asylum seekers, there areÃÂ ...
Fiji Sun Online
February 2, 2018
The newly appointed Padre to serve with the Second Battalion Fiji Infantry Regiment (2FIR) under the Multinational Forces and Observers in the Sinai Desert, Reverend Viliame Tunidau, was promoted to the rank of Captain (Army). The Yaroi native of Matuku, Lau, Captain Reverend Tunidau, hadÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
February 2, 2018
... to those who would be deported as “illegal labor infiltrators” and called the campaign against the deportations “absurd.” Most of the Africans fled to Israel in a long overland journey from war-torn Sudan or from the dictatorship in Eritrea, with the first immigrants crossing the Sinai Desert from Egypt in 2005.
http://hamodia.com
January 26, 2018
Therefore, Hashem opted to guide them across the Sinai desert to Har Sinai, from which they eventually traveled to the eastern side of the Jordan River, across which Yehoshua led them into the Land of Israel. With this geographical understanding, Rav Reisman explains that when the Jewish people leftÃÂ ...
Black Star News
January 26, 2018
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday that El-Al flight pilots have refused to fly deported African refugees from Israel to third countries; this article was of more than a passing interest to me. In an earlier article the newspaper reports how a young refugee from Darfur committed suicide out ofÃÂ ...
Black Star News
January 26, 2018
Many left their homes crossing the Sudan into Egypt and the Sinai desert and entering Israel seeking asylum. ... Ben Dror Yemini advocates for African men to be “transferred out of Israeli cities into desert camp centers in order to prevent romantic relationship between them and Jewish Israeli women”.
The National
January 23, 2018
After the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 in October over the Sinai desert, which led to the deaths of all 224 people on board, an EgyptAir mechanic with a cousin fighting for Isis, a baggage handler and two police officers were arrested. And in Australia, the authorities have carried out a series of arrests inÃÂ ...
Atlas Obscura
January 10, 2018
However, Eadel's dream of a theater in the middle of the desert of Egypt remains unrealized, with no further plans of reviving the Sinai cinema. Today, the only audience rides motorbikes through the desert to see the rows of abandoned seats, with their aura of possibility and decay, backdropped by the Sinai hills painted onÃÂ ...
Palestine News Network
January 10, 2018
The Israeli Haaretz newspaper on Thursday reported that Netanyahu has suggested a plan in 2014, to move the Palestinians to the Egyptian Sinai desert in exchange with talking large parts of the occupied West Bank, including the big settlements. While Netanyahu's office denied the information, HaaretzÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 10, 2018
There they joined the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State, which is battling the Egyptian Army in the Sinai Desert. One brother was killed about 18 months ago, at the age of 20. Last week the eldest, Hamza al-Zamli, 25, showed up in a shocking video, railing against Hamas, the Islamic group that dominatesÃÂ ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
CAIRO, February 7, 2018 (WAFA) - Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt opened on Wednesday for three days to allow travel for humanitarian cases, the Palestinian embassy in Egypt announced on Wednesday. Palestine's ambassador to Cairo and its permanent delegate to the Arab League,ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Many crossed into Israel through the Sinai desert between 2006 and 2012, according to Israel's African Refugee Development Center, fleeing the harsh political conditions in Eritrea or genocide and war in Sudan. The Israeli government has argued that these migrants are simply in Israel looking for work.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
An armoured Israeli military vehicle patrols near a barrier along Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai desert, near the Nitzana crossing January 30, 2014. Reuters. Israeli troops kill drug smuggler on Egypt border ÷ Hasidic 'drug smuggler' may be unfit for trial ÷ IDF says troops shot and killed Syrian drugà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 6, 2017
Israel didn't have long to wait for its first nuclear crisis. The 1973 Yom Kippur War saw Arab armies achieve strategic surprise, sending Israeli ground forces reeling in both in the Sinai desert and the Golan Heights. Israeli nuclear weapons were placed on alert and loaded onto Jericho I surface-to-surface ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
December 6, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that terrorists who fled Raqqa, Syria, went to Egypt to fight in the Sinai Peninsula. ... operation by the US-led coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF in October, were sent to Egypt to carry out operations in the Sinai desert,” Erdogan said Tuesday.
The Croydon Citizen
December 6, 2017
British forces, supported by men returning from the failed attack on Gallipoli, resisted the attacks and crossed the Sinai desert to launch a counter-attack in Palestine during 1917. They suffered defeats at Gaza leading to the appointment of General Edmund Allenby to command the EEF in June 1917.
Scout
December 5, 2017
The paratroopers cleared out Sudanese and Egyptian forces from in and around the pass in support of a larger offensive to take the Sinai, and the compact, high-firepower Uzi proved useful in clearing Egyptian troops out of nearby caves. During the 1956 war, the Uzi was used in the Sinai desert once ...
Egypttoday (blog)
December 4, 2017
CAIRO – 4 December 2017: There are quite a few carved canyons in South Sinai's desert, hills and mountains. These canyons, which are mostly hidden among Sinai's landmarks, make for a beautiful, exciting safari. White Canyon Located near St. Catherine, the White Canyon is soft and rocky, starting as a ...
Jewish Journal
November 29, 2017
Where tourists, cartographers and mountain climbers once gathered, hyperintensive, bloody, fatwa-driven terrorist wars are turning the sacred sands bloody and gruesome. As one who has visited and traveled extensively in the Sinai desert, I can attest to its awesome beauty, environmental fragility and the ...
Gatestone Institute
November 29, 2017
Egypt's security forces might improve their performance in the Sinai against ISIS by adopting the following suggestions. The military might permanently occupy all of the major oases of the Sinai desert, thus denying jihadists easy access to water replenishment and rest sites. Another initiative for the Egyptian ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 24, 2017
Egypt mosque attack: Military 'launches air strikes' after at least 235 worshippers killed in Sinai massacre ... but suspicion fell on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (Isil) affiliate in the Sinai desert, which has waged a bloody insurgency against the Egyptian military and the country's Christian minority.
The Guardian
November 14, 2017
An Israeli soldier evacuates a screaming Jewish settler from an apartment building, in the Sinai Desert settlement of Yamit, 22 April 1982. Photograph: Getty. The Israeli Government plans to settle 350 families here by next spring. Yamit is the first urban settlement established in territory occupied during the ...
The North Africa Post
November 10, 2017
... the UK banned its airlines to land in Sharm el-Sheikh in the wake of the crash of a Russian charter jet in the Sinai Desert in November 2015.
The Guardian
November 10, 2017
Next came Still Alive, a long-term project with a tribe of bedouins in the Sinai desert. She describes it as: “Not reportage, not documentary – it ...
Hereford Times
November 9, 2017
An unidentified soldier serving with 1st Herefords in Egypt's Sinai desert wrote of his, and his fellow soldiers' memories of home: “What a ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 9, 2017
... charter jet in the Sinai Desert in November 2015. The Egyptian Tourism Authority is also marketing to British holidaymakers the "White Med", ...
The Independent
November 9, 2017
... jet at Sharm El Sheikh airport: 224 people died when their Metrojet charter flight from to St Petersburg in Russia crashed in the Sinai desert.
The Island Now
November 6, 2017
I lived in the Great Australian Desert, the forests of New Zealand, the tropical beaches of Fiji, the Alps in Europe, and the Sinai Desert in Israel.
Newsday
November 4, 2017
On weekends we took trips on his motorcycle, visiting many locations throughout Israel, such as the Sinai Desert and Eilat, a resort area on the ...
KSDK
November 3, 2017
The asylum seekers, most escaping genocide in Sudan or repression in Eritrea, first arrived to Israel in 2006 after crossing Egypt's Sinai Desert.
Al-Monitor
October 30, 2017
Also, the security stalemate in the Sinai Desert is of prime importance. The Egyptian diplomat said that throughout the negotiations Cairo kept ...
Egypt Independent
October 29, 2017
Army forces arrested three Takfiris and a four-wheeled car hidden in a cave in the middle of the Sinai desert, as well as explosive materials ...
Egypt Independent
October 17, 2017
Due to scarcity of funding, 'Sinai Province' resorts to streets-war, armed ... and police check points in North Sinai's desert, the group started to ...
i24NEWS
October 15, 2017
Two rockets were fired at southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai desert on ... in the Sinai, carried out by the region's Islamic State (IS) offshoot.
MetroWest Daily News
October 14, 2017
Moses crossed the Red Sea and entered the Sinai desert to escape the Egyptians and form his followers into an integrated nation trusting in ...
Aljazeera.com
October 6, 2017
... that resulted in the Israeli occupation of what remained of historic Palestine, as well as the Egyptian Sinai desert, and the Golan Heights from ...
The Recorder
October 6, 2017
Dragicevich's play begins in a refugee camp in the Sinai desert, focusing on Serbian sisters Mara and Sava. Then, in bold theatrical style, ...
AMN Al-Masdar News
December 31, 1999
... insurgency on the Sinai Peninsula, looking to restore order to the sparsely populated desert governorate and defeat ISIS' Egyptian franchise ...
WBIR-TV
December 31, 1999
The asylum seekers, most escaping genocide in Sudan or repression in Eritrea, first arrived to Israel in 2006 after crossing Egypt's Sinai Desert.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
The dry desert climate also drained the bones of any collagen, a protein ... el-Khadem, an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine in the Sinai desert.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
No evidence that the children of Israel sojourned in Egypt, passed through a miraculously parted Red Sea, wandered the Sinai Desert for 40Â ...
Aljazeera.com
October 6, 2017
... days of battle against Israel that resulted in the Israeli occupation of what remained of historic Palestine, as well as the Egyptian Sinai desert,ÃÂ ...
NJ.com
October 5, 2017
... a temporary structure covered with vegetation or bamboo, commemorates the ancient journey the Jewish people traveled in the Sinai desertÃÂ ...
The Independent
October 4, 2017
... 2015 – 224 people died when their Metrojet charter flight from Sharm el Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia crashed in the Sinai desert.
TAPinto.net
October 4, 2017
... vegetation or bamboo, commemorates the ancient journey the Jewish people traveled in the Sinai desert wilderness on their way to Israel.
Breaking Israel News
September 29, 2017
The lauded Israeli Air Force was nowhere to be seen in the skies over the Sinai desert since air-support was needed in the north, and RussianÃÂ ...
Forward
September 29, 2017
In Los Angeles's Sinai Temple, for example, members who want a seat in ... Though that may have worked better, and fairer, in the Sinai desertÃÂ ...
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