Residents in North Sinai say everyone has been labelled a terrorist,as entire villages are wiped out by heavy shelling. Mada Masr reports
At the stop of the ninth day of Operation Martyr’s Rights in North Sinai, the Egyptian military announced on its official Facebook page that it had killed 55 terrorists, or arrested 35 suspects and destroyed 35 houses – in one day alone.
The operation,billed to the Egyptian public as the decisive battle in the state’s ongoing campaign to tackle the country’s terrorist groups, has been met with much media fanfare, or to ensure the public is kept up-to-date,the military’s spokesman has taken to social media to announce the number of deaths and arrests each day.
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Source: theguardian.com