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Egypt Orders Execution of 3 Condemned with Contacting ISIS in Libya

A security force member stands guard while people arrive to cast their vote, outside a school used as a polling station during the second round of Egypt's parliamentary election in Cairo, Egypt, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
A security force member stands guard while people arrive to cast their vote, outside a school used as a polling station during the second round of Egypt's parliamentary election in Cairo, Egypt, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
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Egypt Orders Execution of 3 Condemned with Contacting ISIS in Libya

A security force member stands guard while people arrive to cast their vote, outside a school used as a polling station during the second round of Egypt's parliamentary election in Cairo, Egypt, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
A security force member stands guard while people arrive to cast their vote, outside a school used as a polling station during the second round of Egypt's parliamentary election in Cairo, Egypt, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

An Egyptian court ordered the execution of three, and issued a life sentence (25 years) against three others after they were condemned for joining and making contact with ISIS.

The court also issued a 15-year in prison sentence against four others.

Former Egyptian Prosecutor-General Nabil Ahmed Tawfiq Sadek referred the condemned, including four Libyans, to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court on charges of “dealing with the terrorist ISIS group and the Special Deterrent Force and those who work for its interest in Libya.”

The investigations showed that the group committed terrorist crimes against Egyptians residing in Libya.

The crimes included the kidnapping and torturing of Egyptians in exchange for ransom from their families to release them.

They also provided the group with funds and information, in addition to committing other crimes such as human trafficking and illegal migrant smuggling.

According to the public prosecution’s investigation, the first defendant's confession, the voice records, the testimonies of the victims and their families, he visited Libya several times and had ties with Libyan ISIS members.

He also agreed with them on abducting Egyptian citizens to ask for ransom.

Further, he cooperated with Libyan ISIS members in 2017 to kidnap 14 Egyptians and torture them, forcing their families to pay ransom to release them.

The Emergency Supreme State Security Court stated that the condemned should undergo a rehabilitation program.

They were further placed under police surveillance for five years.

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Hezbollah Rockets Hit Israel’s Haifa and Tiberias, 10 Injured

An Israeli rescue force member inspects the site where a projectile fell,amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Haifa, northern Israel October 7, 2024. (Reuters)
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Hezbollah Rockets Hit Israel’s Haifa and Tiberias, 10 Injured

An Israeli rescue force member inspects the site where a projectile fell,amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Haifa, northern Israel October 7, 2024. (Reuters)
An Israeli rescue force member inspects the site where a projectile fell,amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Haifa, northern Israel October 7, 2024. (Reuters)

Hezbollah rockets hit Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, Israeli police said early on Monday, and Israeli media reported 10 people were injured in the country's north.

Hezbollah said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with a salvo of "Fadi 1" missiles. Media reports said two rockets hit Haifa on Israel's Mediterranean Coast and five others hit Tiberias 65 km (40 miles) away.

Police said some buildings and properties were damaged, and there were several reports of minor injuries with some people taken to a nearby hospital.

Video taken by surveillance camera showed the moment a Hezbollah rocket hit Haifa.

Reuters was able to independently verify the location with the design and outline of the buildings, business signs, trees and road layout that match the file and satellite imagery of the area. Reuters was able to independently verify the date with corroborating reports and the timestamp of the footage.

Israel's military said fighter jets hit targets belonging to Hezbollah's Intelligence Headquarters in Beirut, including intelligence-gathering means, command centers, and additional infrastructure sites.

Over the past few hours, the airstrikes struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the area of Beirut, the military said, noting that secondary explosions were identified following the strikes, indicating the presence of weaponry.

Airstrikes also struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa area, including weapons storage facilities, infrastructure sites, a command center, and a launcher, the military said.

It blamed Hezbollah for deliberately embedding its command centers and weaponry beneath residential buildings in the heart of the city of Beirut and endangering the civilian population.