Taba (Egypt)
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Coordinates | 29 ° 30 ' N , 34 ° 54' E | |
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Country | Egypt | |
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ISO 3166-2 | EG-JS |
Taba ( Arabic طابا, DMG Ṭābā ) is located on the Sinai Peninsula on the Gulf of Aqaba in Egypt . Taba is located at the " quadrangle " of Egypt, Saudi Arabia , Jordan and Israel and belongs to the Egyptian governorate of Janub Sina . The city borders directly on Israel and is only 6 km from the Israeli city of Eilat . Taba Airport is 16 km northwest of the city .
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Average monthly temperatures for Taba
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history
Taba was only awarded to Egypt again in 1988 as the last part of the Sinai Peninsula by an international court of arbitration. After the Israeli occupation as a result of the Six Day War of 1967, the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 failed to reach an agreement on Taba. The Israeli side argued that Taba was not part of Egypt when Egypt was separated from the Ottoman Empire in 1906 . The arbitral tribunal did not agree with this opinion. Only on March 19, 1989, the Egyptian President Husni Mubarak was able to raise the Egyptian flag in Taba. Since then, a "national holiday" has been celebrated annually on this day on the southern Sinai Peninsula.
terrorist attacks
Attack on October 7, 2004
On October 7, 2004, at 9:50 pm, the Taba Hilton Hotel was attacked by a suicide bomber using a car bomb . Among the 34 victims were 12 Israelis, against whom the attack was presumably directed. 25 minutes later, Camp Moon Island Village in Ras Schitan was also attacked with a car bomb, killing 3 people. The attacks are attributed to the terrorist group al-Qaeda .
Bomb attack on February 16, 2014
At least five people died in a bomb attack on the Taba- Eilat border on February 16, 2014. The attack occurred on a pilgrim bus from the St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai . Four South Korean tourists and the Egyptian bus driver were among the dead .
The terrorist organization Ansar Bait al-Maqdis , which operates from Sinai, claimed responsibility for the attack .
Individual evidence
- ^ Signing of Agreement With Israel Turns Over Last of Sinai to Egypt. In: nytimes.com of February 27, 1989.
- ^ 'No al-Qaeda hand' in Egypt bombs. In: news.bbc.co.uk. November 1, 2004, accessed February 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Hans-Christian Rößler: Attack on tourist bus in Sinai. In: FAZ.net . February 16, 2014, accessed February 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Al Jazeera : Egypt tourist bus attacked in Sinai blast on February 16, 2014.
- ↑ Martin Gehlen: Al-Qaida is becoming more and more powerful in Egypt. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 18, 2014, accessed February 25, 2015 .