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Terrorist attack in Tanta Egypt
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Today, for example, no one has died in Gaza
Even yesterday not, so the phrase "every day" is inaccurate and sinful to the truth.
Terrorism is deliberate targeting of civilians in order to frighten and deter the other side, thereby achieving any political achievement.
Israel does not intentionally harm civilians, at least not in Gaza (Israel harms its Jewish citizens).
In Gaza there is no Israeli occupation, Israel has removed the army and civilians from there.
There is no Hamas occupation in Gaza, Hamas is an elected government.
Therefore, the phrase "Gaza has occupation" is not accurate.
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This is not the topic to answer you but I can make you silent. Any how let pray for the terror victims.
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I'm sorry my dear Christian friends on what happened. May the Lord give you peace and strength at this difficult time. The Egyptian forces are good and will repay back your deaths quickly.
Yes they do my friend, they were poor folk celebrating Palm Sunday.
To other posters please leave the "Jew" this and "Jew" that stuff out. If you wish to criticise Israel please do, but don't bring faith into it.
Yes they do my friend, they were poor folk celebrating Palm Sunday.
To other posters please leave the "Jew" this and "Jew" that stuff out. If you wish to criticise Israel please do, but don't bring faith into it.
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I wish to send my condolences to the Egyptians.
May u'll avenge the deaths of those innocent and eliminate daesh terrorists
May u'll avenge the deaths of those innocent and eliminate daesh terrorists
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You mean ideology
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AFP | AP | ReutersUpdated about 3 hours ago
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A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9. ─ Reuters
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by militants.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which come a week before Coptic Easter and in the same month that Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt.
The first bombing, in Tanta, a Nile Delta city less than 100 kilometres outside Cairo, killed at least 25 and injured at least 78, Egypt's Ministry of Health said.
The second, carried out just a few hours later by a suicide bomber in Alexandria, hit the historic seat of the Coptic Pope, killing 11, including three police officers, and injuring 35, the ministry added.
Pope Tawadros, who had attended mass at Saint Mark's Cathedral, was still in the building at the time of the explosion but was not harmed, the Ministry of Interior said.
The bombings come as the militant Islamic State (IS) group's branch in Egypt appears to be stepping up attacks and threats against Christians.
The attacks are the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt's Christian minority, which makes up around 10 percent of the population and has been repeatedly targeted by militants.
Palm Sunday is one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, marking the triumphant entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem.
CBC TV showed footage from inside the church in Tanta, where a large number of people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers.
A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9 ─ Reauters
Provincial governor Ahmad Deif told the channel that at least 42 people were wounded in the first attack and that the explosion occurred inside the church.
“Either a bomb was planted or someone blew himself up,” Deif said, adding that security forces had searched the church and surrounding areas for additional explosive devices.
Copts, who make up about one tenth of Egypt's population of more than 92 million and who celebrate Easter next weekend, have been targeted by several attacks in recent months.
Militants accuse them of supporting the military overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, which ushered in a deadly crackdown on his supporters.
In December, a suicide bombing claimed by IS killed 29 worshippers during Sunday mass in Cairo.
The bombing of the church within a compound that also holds the seat of the Coptic papacy was the deadliest attack against the minority in recent memory.
A spate of militant attacks in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, including the murder of a Copt in the city of El Arish whose house was also burned, have led some Coptic families to flee their homes.
Relatives of victims react in front of a Coptic church that was bombed on Sunday in Tanta, Egypt, April 9. ─ Reuters
About 250 Christians took refuge in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya after IS released a video in February calling for attacks on the religious minority.
Egypt's army is waging a counter-insurgency against an IS affiliate in Sinai, which has claimed scores of attacks against police and army positions.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief helped the military to remove Morsi, defended his security forces in a televised address soon afterwards.
“(The attacks aim to) destabilise the fabric of Egypt... to give the impression that one group isn't protected as it should be,” Sisi said at the time.
Following Morsi's ouster, mobs attacked dozens of churches and Christian properties.
Pope Francis is due to visit Cairo on April 28-29 to show solidarity with Egypt's Christian community.
The pontiff will visit the site of the December church attack next to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral ─ the seat of Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II.
'We feel targeted'
A shift in IS group's tactics, which has waged a low-level conflict for years in the Sinai peninsula against soldiers and police, to targeting Christian civilians and broadening its reach into Egypt's mainland is a potential turning point in a country trying to prevent a provincial insurgency from spiralling into wider sectarian bloodshed.
Egypt's Christian community has felt increasingly insecure since IS spread through Iraq and Syria in 2014, ruthlessly targeting religious minorities. In 2015, 21 Egyptian Christians working in Libya were killed by IS.
“Of course we feel targeted, there was a bomb here about a week ago but it was dismantled. There's no security,” said another Christian woman in Tanta referring to an attack earlier this month near a police training centre that killed one policeman and injured 15.
Copts face regular attacks by Muslim neighbours, who burn their homes and churches in poor rural areas, usually in anger over an inter-faith romance or the construction of a church.
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A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9. ─ Reuters
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by militants.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which come a week before Coptic Easter and in the same month that Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt.
The first bombing, in Tanta, a Nile Delta city less than 100 kilometres outside Cairo, killed at least 25 and injured at least 78, Egypt's Ministry of Health said.
The second, carried out just a few hours later by a suicide bomber in Alexandria, hit the historic seat of the Coptic Pope, killing 11, including three police officers, and injuring 35, the ministry added.
Pope Tawadros, who had attended mass at Saint Mark's Cathedral, was still in the building at the time of the explosion but was not harmed, the Ministry of Interior said.
The bombings come as the militant Islamic State (IS) group's branch in Egypt appears to be stepping up attacks and threats against Christians.
The attacks are the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt's Christian minority, which makes up around 10 percent of the population and has been repeatedly targeted by militants.
Palm Sunday is one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, marking the triumphant entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem.
CBC TV showed footage from inside the church in Tanta, where a large number of people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers.
A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9 ─ Reauters
Provincial governor Ahmad Deif told the channel that at least 42 people were wounded in the first attack and that the explosion occurred inside the church.
“Either a bomb was planted or someone blew himself up,” Deif said, adding that security forces had searched the church and surrounding areas for additional explosive devices.
Copts, who make up about one tenth of Egypt's population of more than 92 million and who celebrate Easter next weekend, have been targeted by several attacks in recent months.
Militants accuse them of supporting the military overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, which ushered in a deadly crackdown on his supporters.
In December, a suicide bombing claimed by IS killed 29 worshippers during Sunday mass in Cairo.
The bombing of the church within a compound that also holds the seat of the Coptic papacy was the deadliest attack against the minority in recent memory.
A spate of militant attacks in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, including the murder of a Copt in the city of El Arish whose house was also burned, have led some Coptic families to flee their homes.
Relatives of victims react in front of a Coptic church that was bombed on Sunday in Tanta, Egypt, April 9. ─ Reuters
About 250 Christians took refuge in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya after IS released a video in February calling for attacks on the religious minority.
Egypt's army is waging a counter-insurgency against an IS affiliate in Sinai, which has claimed scores of attacks against police and army positions.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief helped the military to remove Morsi, defended his security forces in a televised address soon afterwards.
“(The attacks aim to) destabilise the fabric of Egypt... to give the impression that one group isn't protected as it should be,” Sisi said at the time.
Following Morsi's ouster, mobs attacked dozens of churches and Christian properties.
Pope Francis is due to visit Cairo on April 28-29 to show solidarity with Egypt's Christian community.
The pontiff will visit the site of the December church attack next to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral ─ the seat of Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II.
'We feel targeted'
A shift in IS group's tactics, which has waged a low-level conflict for years in the Sinai peninsula against soldiers and police, to targeting Christian civilians and broadening its reach into Egypt's mainland is a potential turning point in a country trying to prevent a provincial insurgency from spiralling into wider sectarian bloodshed.
Egypt's Christian community has felt increasingly insecure since IS spread through Iraq and Syria in 2014, ruthlessly targeting religious minorities. In 2015, 21 Egyptian Christians working in Libya were killed by IS.
“Of course we feel targeted, there was a bomb here about a week ago but it was dismantled. There's no security,” said another Christian woman in Tanta referring to an attack earlier this month near a police training centre that killed one policeman and injured 15.
Copts face regular attacks by Muslim neighbours, who burn their homes and churches in poor rural areas, usually in anger over an inter-faith romance or the construction of a church.
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Look if you want to start an ideology debate, I'm not going to come along with you, This is not the place. Now lets just pray for the terror victims.
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He just Americans to bomb Iran .... Don't take this rootless guy's seriously ...
Egypt should help Syrian Arab Army to crush ISIS
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You need to chill out, the guy is normal secular person who most of the time is just joking around.
Here you are making good point, OP is interested in focusing on terrorism to make appear that it is Shia+Christian plus other minorities in a struggle with Sunni's. This is counterproductive because there are already people that believe in that. Most of us are agains terrorism and hegemony. We all need to be sane and unite against all evils in the region. If we pick one side it will widen the division.
Anyway RIP to victims.
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I can understand why he would do that because no Christian refugee gonna blow himself up or drive a van into a crowd of people.
So you should blame Islamic terrorists for such decisions not trump.
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