CAIRO – 7 May 2022: A military officer and 10 soldiers were killed as the Egyptian army managed to foil a terrorist attack against a water lift station east of the Suez Canal, Egyptian Military Spokesman Gharib Abdel Hafez said in a statement.
Five military personnel were also injured as the Egyptian army confronted the attack carried out by a group of takfiri elements, the spokesman said on Saturday.
The terrorist elements are being pursued and besieged in one of the isolated areas in Sinai, the spokesman added.
“The armed forces affirm their continued efforts to eradicate terrorism and uproot its roots,” the spokesman stressed.
Egypt has been fighting terrorism since 2013, which saw the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood’s leading figure who ruled Egypt for a year.
Attending an event held by the Egyptian Armed Forces to celebrate "Martyr Day” in March, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said “I wish you all to understand how the price paid to achieve security is very precious.”
In a speech, President Sisi pointed out that the Egyptian people’s willpower to ouster the narrow-minded regime that existed in 2013, incurred a wave of terrorism. And, that to contain it, many of the members of the Egyptian Armed Forces were made martyrs.
The president further noted that the Egyptian Armed Forces has been determined to couple war on terror with contributions in development works. Sisi was referring to supervising the building of roads, infrastructure projects, factories, and farms.
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