Militants belonging to various extremist religious groups paraded the streets of two North Sinai towns Sunday, driving SUVs and carrying automatic weapons, security sources said.
The sources said the militants demonstrated in Rafah and Sheikh Zuwayed, both on the border with Israel, in a region demilitarized by the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Witnesses said people were horrified by the scene.
Insecurity has grown in Sinai since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in Egypt’s 2011 revolution. In August last year, gunmen suspected of being Islamist militants killed at least 15 Egyptian border guards in an assault on a police station at the border between Egypt and Israel.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
