Serangan Tentera Mesir Sinai: tentera bergerak terhadap
Sinai sebagai Islam protes Kaherah berterusan. Penyokong Presiden Mesir
Mohammed Morsi yang digulingkan dan partinya Ikhwan Muslimin Islam mereka berterusan
‘Sit-in’ dan perhimpunan besar-besaran di Kaherah ke hujung minggu, sehari
selepas sekurang-kurangnya 65 orang terbunuh dalam pertempuran dengan penyokong
pro-tentera dan pasukan keselamatan negara.
Beribu-ribu penyokong Morsi masih berkumpul di
Kaherah, di mana ‘Sit-in’ utama mereka telah terletak selama hampir 3 minggu,
selepas menewaskan oleh tentera Morsi pada 3 Julai. Jeneral Mesir Sementara
itu, melancarkan operasi besar-besaran terhadap militan Islam di utara Sinai
bertujuan untuk menghapuskan aktiviti pengganas di semenanjung.
Tentera dari kedua-dua tentera lapangan bersama-sama
dengan tentera laut Mesir dan tentera udara, dilaporkan telah mula menyekat
jalan raya, jambatan, dan terowong yang membawa dari utara Sinai ke
kawasan-kawasan Mesir yang lain.
Egypt Army Sinai Offensive: Military moves
against Sinai Islamists as Cairo protests continue. Supporters of deposed
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his party the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood
continued their sit-ins and massive rallies in Cairo into the weekend, a day
after at least 65 people were killed in clashes with pro-army supporters and
security forces countrywide.
Thousands of Morsi supporters were still gathered
in Cairo, where their main sit-in has been located for nearly three weeks,
following Morsi's ousting by the army on July 3. Egypt's generals, meanwhile,
launched a wide-scale operation against Islamist militants in the northern
Sinai aimed at eliminating terrorist activity on the peninsula.
Military from two
field armies, along with the Egyptian navy and air force, are reported to have
begun blocking roads, bridges, and tunnels leading from northern Sinai to other
Egyptian regions.
