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was Egyptian military spokesman On Sunday, he said, a group of takfiri elements attacked a water lifting point in western Sinai, and the elements assigned to work at the point clashed and confronted them, killing an officer and 10 soldiers, and wounding 5 people.
And being chased terrorist elements And besieging them in one of the isolated areas in the Sinai, while the Egyptian armed forces confirmed the continuation of its efforts to eliminate terrorism and uproot its roots.
One day after the attack, the Egyptian president headed Abdel Fattah Sisia meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
development operations
The former head of the reconnaissance apparatus and advisor at the Nasser Military Academy in Egypt, Major General Nasr Salem, said in statements to the website "Sky News Arabia"that terrorist attack It comes after the unprecedented successes achieved by the armed forces in the Sinai during the past months, by purging it of extremist elements, and working to develop it significantly.
Salem added that "For the first time, Egypt takes a decision to rebuild Sinai In the presence of the population, because the problem has always been in the population vacuum, and therefore 700 billion pounds were allocated for continuous development operations, by building 5 tunnels to end the separation between Sinai and the valley, along with fixed and mobile bridges, with the reclamation of more than 500 thousand acres and passing two million cubic meters Of the water daily passes to irrigate this reclaimed land".
He added that these development projects stand as a stumbling block against the colonial goals that want Sinai to become a terrorist den, stressing that the reconstruction operations began after the success of the military operation. "Sinai 2018" In eliminating more than 95 percent of terrorist elements and their infrastructure, and drying up their sources of funding.
He stressed that this process will not discourage him Armed forces In purging Sinai completely of terrorist elements, he continued: "There are still some sleeper cells, but this is not a success for these elements, because Egypt is going according to a flexible strategy to confront terrorism, which is witnessing a continuous development to eliminate all its forms, and therefore it is expected that the confrontation plan will be more powerful in the coming period.".
The Egyptian military expert pointed out that the Egyptian President’s meeting with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces came to review the assessment of the situation and take decisions that ensure the continued achievement of military objectives and the reconstruction of Sinai and the prevention of any ambitions in it.
successive defeats
In turn, the researcher specializing in military and security affairs, Mohamed Hassan, believes that the takfiri elements in the Sinai have suffered defeats during the last period, and have become isolated from the tactical context of terrorist activities in the region, as the Egyptian army forces succeeded in confining the elements in narrow pockets and depriving them of safe havens and directing Its qualitative hits during the last period.
Hassan added in statements to"Sky News Arabia"The recent terrorist operation in Sinai is the first of its kind in 5 years, as a water-raising station east of the canal was targeted, and it is one of 18 stations designated to serve water projects. agricultural reclamation In Sinai, which aims to cultivate and reclaim about 560,000 feddans. To be able to achieve this goal, water must first be delivered from the Bahr al-Baqar plant for the triple treatment of agricultural wastewater; to Sinai.
He pointed out that the agricultural reclamation project in Sinai is considered the most important in its sustainable development projects, because it creates new population centers in Sinai with a total of one million citizens. Sinai Development.
The researcher in military affairs pointed out that this attack coincides with the Egyptian state being exposed to one of the largest waves of psychological and information warfare waged by terrorist groups, including the Brotherhood, with the aim of exploiting the repercussions of the global economic crisis and limiting it to being an Egyptian crisis only, and then starting a wave New suspicion of the state’s efforts for development, and the takfiri elements usually take advantage of these conditions of shipping to launch attacks through which they first aim at undermining the morale of the Egyptian nation, but they quickly fail in the face of the awakening of the Egyptian consciousness.
He stressed that the Egyptian state had succeeded in curbing terrorist groups and paralyzing their ability to disrupt comprehensive sustainable development projects, or their ability to impose pressure tools on Cairo in the hope of curbing their regional and international activity and influence.
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was Egyptian military spokesman On Sunday, he said, a group of takfiri elements attacked a water lifting point in western Sinai, and the elements assigned to work at the point clashed and confronted them, killing an officer and 10 soldiers, and wounding 5 people.
And being chased terrorist elements And besieging them in one of the isolated areas in the Sinai, while the Egyptian armed forces confirmed the continuation of its efforts to eliminate terrorism and uproot its roots.
One day after the attack, the Egyptian president headed Abdel Fattah Sisia meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
development operations
The former head of the reconnaissance apparatus and advisor at the Nasser Military Academy in Egypt, Major General Nasr Salem, said in statements to “Sky News Arabia”, that terrorist attack It comes after the unprecedented successes achieved by the armed forces in the Sinai during the past months, by purging it of extremist elements, and working to develop it significantly.
Salem added, “For the first time, Egypt has taken a decision to rebuild Sinai In the presence of the population, because the problem has always been in the population vacuum, and therefore 700 billion pounds were allocated for continuous development operations, by building 5 tunnels to end the separation between Sinai and the valley, along with fixed and mobile bridges, with the reclamation of more than 500 thousand acres and passing two million cubic meters From the water daily passes to irrigate this reclaimed land.
He added that these development projects stand as a stumbling block against the colonial goals that want Sinai to become a terrorist den, stressing that the reconstruction operations began after the success of the military operation.Sinai 2018“In eliminating more than 95 percent of terrorist elements and their infrastructure, and drying up their sources of funding.
He stressed that this process will not discourage him Armed forces In clearing Sinai completely of terrorist elements, he continued: “There are still some sleeper cells, but this is not a success for these elements, because Egypt is going according to a flexible strategy to confront terrorism, which is witnessing a continuous development to eliminate all its forms, and therefore it is expected that the confrontation plan will be more strength in the coming period.
The Egyptian military expert pointed out that the Egyptian President’s meeting with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces came to review the assessment of the situation and take decisions that ensure the continued achievement of military objectives and the reconstruction of Sinai and the prevention of any ambitions in it.
successive defeats
In turn, the researcher specializing in military and security affairs, Mohamed Hassan, believes that the takfiri elements in the Sinai have suffered defeats during the last period, and have become isolated from the tactical context of terrorist activities in the region, as the Egyptian army forces succeeded in confining the elements in narrow pockets and depriving them of safe havens and directing Its qualitative hits during the last period.
Hassan added, in statements to “Sky News Arabia”, that the latest terrorist operation in Sinai is the first of its kind in 5 years, as a water-raising station east of the canal was targeted, and it is one of 18 stations designated to serve water projects. agricultural reclamation In Sinai, which aims to cultivate and reclaim about 560,000 feddans. To be able to achieve this goal, water must first be delivered from the Bahr al-Baqar plant for the triple treatment of agricultural wastewater; to Sinai.
He pointed out that the agricultural reclamation project in Sinai is considered the most important in its sustainable development projects, because it creates new population centers in Sinai with a total of one million citizens. Sinai Development.
The researcher in military affairs pointed out that this attack coincides with the Egyptian state being exposed to one of the largest waves of psychological and information warfare waged by terrorist groups, including the Brotherhood, with the aim of exploiting the repercussions of the global economic crisis and limiting it to being an Egyptian crisis only, and then starting a wave New suspicion of the state’s efforts for development, and the takfiri elements usually take advantage of these conditions of shipping to launch attacks through which they first aim at undermining the morale of the Egyptian nation, but they quickly fail in the face of the awakening of the Egyptian consciousness.
He stressed that the Egyptian state had succeeded in curbing terrorist groups and paralyzing their ability to disrupt comprehensive sustainable development projects, or their ability to impose pressure tools on Cairo in the hope of curbing their regional and international activity and influence.