The Interior Ministry declared Saturday that it killed six militants affiliated the military wing of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group following a shoot-out in the Egyptian governorates of Giza and Ismailia.<\/p>\n
According to a statement released on the Ministry\u2019s official facebook page, the shoot-out between polices forces and the aforementioned six militants came as part of a police operation that targeted the arrest of the militants.
\nThe arrest operation was launched after police received permission from the prosecution. The six slain militants were proven to be responsible for terrorist attacks and two of them were leading figure from the \u2018Hasm\u2019 militant group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police forces that received permission from the prosecution, to arrest two leading figures from the militant group of \u2018Hasm,\u2019 approached \u2018Abu Ragwan\u2019 road where the two leading figures were stationed ready for an attack,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
Upon the arrival of the police forces to the road, the two \u2018Hasm\u2019 leading figures opened fire against the forces, that led forces to engage in a shoot-out with them, the shooting led to the death of the two leading figures, the statement added.<\/p>\n
The Interior Ministry noted that both the two killed \u2018Hasm\u2019 leaders were receiving funds and logistic support, such as weaponry, from fugitive MB leaders in order to execute numerous military attacks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, other forces, affiliated with the Interior Ministry, targeted the other four militants Saturday morning. The four militants, who are believed to be part of the militant movement of \u2018 Hasm\u2019 affiliated to MB, were hiding in the desert area of \u2018Gelbna\u2019 located east of Ismailia governorate. The point was used as a station from which to launch their attacks, the Interior Ministry said.<\/p>\n
The militants opened fire against the approaching police forces upon their arrival to arrest them. The police forces responded with fire, which led to the death of the four militants, according to a statement issued from the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n
The little-know group of \u2018Hasm,\u2019 that is believed to part of the MB military wing, has executed attacks side by side with another little-known group of \u2018Lewaa El Thawra.\u2019 Numerous military attacks have been carried out by the groups against policemen stationed in Cairo and the Delta governorates.<\/p>\n
In previous statements both groups said that the operations against the police forces are considered revenge for their betrayal in the 25th Jan revolution and the dispersal of the renowned MB sit-in of Rabaa Al-Adawyia in 2013, in the wake of the removal of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi from power.<\/p>\n
Both aforementioned groups have adopted ideologies that are contrary to that of IS affiliated group of \u2018Sinai Province,\u2019 both \u2018Lewaa El Thawra\u2019 and \u2018Hasm\u2019 consider their operations as revenge acts against the current power\u2019s betrayal.<\/p>\n
While, the \u2018Sinai Province\u2019 group, based in the tumultuous North Sinai, has adopted a strategy dependent on the ideology that all army and police members are infidels who should be killed to pave the way for the establishment of the Caliphate state in the Middle East and eventually the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Interior Ministry declared Saturday that it killed six militants affiliated the military wing of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group following a shoot-out in the Egyptian governorates of Giza and Ismailia. According to a statement released on the Ministry\u2019s official facebook page, the shoot-out between polices forces and the aforementioned six militants came as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[11560,8223,14263,9400],"class_list":["post-21935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-giza","tag-interior-ministry","tag-ismailia","tag-muslim-brotherhood"],"yoast_head":"\n