Pics: Egyptian Red Crescent offers aid to terrorist-hit village in Sinai

CAIRO – 20 May 2018: The Egyptian Red Crescent offered food aid and clothes to people of Al-Rawdah village in North Sinai, following the terrorist attack that took place in the village last year.


Egyptian Red Crescent offers food aid and clothes to people of Al-Rawdah village in North Sinai – press photo/courtesy of the ERC Facebook page

The ERC said in a statement on Saturday that its volunteers have distributed aid from May 9-14 to over 400 families of the Rawdah village, within the framework of the provision of psychological and social support to the people of the village that witnessed Egypt’s deadliest terror attack.


Egyptian Red Crescent offers food aid and clothes to people of Al-Rawdah village in North Sinai – press photo/courtesy of the ERC Facebook page


Egyptian Red Crescent offers food aid and clothes to people of Al-Rawdah village in North Sinai – press photo/courtesy of the ERC Facebook page

Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali had directed the administration of the Egyptian Red Crescent to dispatch food, as well as health services and supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, aiding its Palestinian counterpart.

During the past three days, the Egyptian Red Crescent reportedly dispatched more than seven tons of medical supplies and medicine to the Palestinian Red Crescent. It also sent its team to visit the injured Palestinians in Egyptian hospitals and deliver meals of iftar and suhoor to them.



In late November, Al-Rawdah village, located between Al-Arish city and Bir al-Abed in North Sinai, lost about 15 percent of its population, after a number of unidentified militants attacked the village’s mosque during Friday prayers, setting off explosives and spraying worshippers with gunfire. The attack killed at least 311 people and injured 121, according to media reports.

Security forces asserted to Emirates 24 News website that Abu Hajar al-Hashemi, who is presented as the Islamic State’s (IS) leader in Sinai, is the main perpetrator of the attack on Al-Rawdah mosque.


An interior view of Al Rawdah mosque is seen after an explosion, in Bir Al-Abed, Egypt November 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Soliman

In December, Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, represented by the Food Industry Holding Company, provided 500 blankets and food subsidies to families in Bir al-Abed town.

Nasr Allah Mohamed, head of Bir al-Abed town, told Egypt Today that the convoy provided 500 boxes that included rice, oil, beans, flour and 500 blankets. The boxes were delivered to families’ homes in Bir al-Abed.

In February, the Egyptian Armed Forces launched the Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018 which comes within the army’s ongoing counterterrorism operations to eliminate terrorists and takfiri elements in North and Central Sinai, and eradicate their breeding grounds and hotbeds.

Dozens of terrorists have been eliminated in Sinai, including Nasser Abu Zaqoul, the leader of the terrorist organization in Central Sinai, according to the army’s statements published on the Defense Ministry’s website concerning the ongoing Operation Sinai, while other criminals and suspects were arrested.


Screenshots of the 22nd statement of the Armed Forces concerning Comprehensive Sinai Operation 2018

According to its 22nd statement published on the Defense Ministry’s website on Thursday to follow up on the updates of the Operation, the Armed Forces continue to provide people of North and Central Sinai with food aid to ease their suffering.

Additional reporting by Mohamed Zain