Attack on the al-Rawda mosque

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Coordinates: 31 ° 2 ′  N , 33 ° 21 ′  E

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The attack on the al-Rawda mosque on November 24, 2017 was a terrorist attack in the wake of the Sinai uprising on the fully occupied al-Rawda mosque between the towns of Bir al-Abd and al-Arish, which was mainly visited by supporters of Sufism in the Shamāl Sīnāʾ governorate on the Sinai Peninsula .

A total of around 40 attackers with the flag of the Islamic State (IS) arrived in four off-road vehicles and surrounded the mosque. They threw two explosives, positioned themselves at the entrance and on the twelve windows of the mosque and fired at believers who were about to leave the mosque after the first Friday prayers , as well as at rescue workers arriving. At least 305 people were killed and over 100 others injured. At least 27 children are among those killed.

In March 2016, 13 military police were killed in an attack with grenade launchers on a checkpoint in Bir al-Abd. Islamist terrorists also carried out the attacks on Palm Sunday 2017 on the Coptic Christian minority in St. Mark's Cathedral .

The Jordanian King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein condemned the attacks as a "heinous terrorist attack". The Muslim Brotherhood also condemned the attack on their Twitter account.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called national mourning from. The Egyptian Air Force attacked bases of suspected Islamist extremists in Sinai ; people were killed and vehicles, weapons and ammunition destroyed. In Paris, the lights on the Eiffel Tower were switched off in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Militants kill more than 230 at mosque in Egypt's North Sinai. In: uk.reuters.com. November 24, 2017, accessed November 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Attack on Egyptian mosque: The death toll rises to more than 300. In: Spiegel Online . November 25, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Egypt vows forceful response after massacre. In: bbc.com. November 24, 2017, accessed November 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Hamdi Alkhshali, Ian Lee and Laura Smith-Spark: 'Scores killed' in Egypt mosque attack. CNN , accessed November 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ IS offshoot suspected behind the attack