Sinai Peninsula - 1995 Gulf of Aqaba Earthquake, Abu-Ageila, Bnei Atzmon, Coloured Canyon, Crossing the Red Sea, Dahab, El Shatt, Galala (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake, Abu-Ageila, Bnei Atzmon, Coloured Canyon, Crossing the Red Sea, Dahab, El Shatt, Galala Marble, Galala Mountain, Kuntillet Ajrud, Lagona, Nawamis, Operation Eagle, Operation Sinai (2012), Saint Catherine's Monastery, Saint Katherine Protectorate, Sinai insurgency, Sinai Interim Agreement, South Sinai regional development programme, Tomb of Aaron. Excerpt: Operation Eagle (Arabic: ) was an Egyptian military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, that was launched in August 2011 to confront the Sinai insurgency. The campaign was aimed against Islamist insurgents, who had been attacking the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai and using the area as a base from which to attack Israel since early 2011. Successive Egyptian operation against insurgents in 2012, named Operation Sinai, was initially referred as the second part of Operation Eagle. Sinai was an integral part of Egypt since the inception of the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the early 19th century. Israel briefly captured the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. As part of the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, in 1982 Israel withdrew from the peninsula. Among the treaty's other provisions was an agreement that the peninsula would be left effectively demilitarized. The security situation in the Sinai began deteriorating early in 2011, as a fallout of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Since February to August of that year, the Egypt-Israel pipeline in El-Arish was attacked five times by saboteurs. On 30 July, militants staged an attack on an Egyptian police station in El-Arish, killing six. On 2 August, a group claiming to be the Sinai wing of Al-Qaeda declared its intention to create an Islamic caliphate in the Sinai. On 14-15 August 2011, having obtained prior approval from Israel's government, Egypt deployed 2,500 troops...