Egypt’s military campaign against insurgents in northern Sinai is harming thousands of civilians and risks turning more people against the government, Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday.
The government in Cairo has evicted 3,200 families over the past two years and razed hundreds of hectares of farmland and thousands of homes in its bid to destroy smugglers’ tunnels connecting Gaza with Egypt’s northern Sinai peninsula, the rights group said in a report quoted by The Associated Press (AP).
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Yom Kippur in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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