Egyptian authorities announced the arrest Monday of five people allegedly involved in helping to plan the coordinated bombings earlier this month at three resorts on the Sinai Peninsula, and said the Palestinian leader of the attacks died accidentally in the explosions that killed at least 33 others. In a statement, Egypt’s Interior Ministry identified Ayad Said Salah, a Palestinian living in the northern Sinai, as the leader of a group of roughly nine men who carried out the Oct. 7 attacks on the Taba Hilton and two camp-style resorts farther south along the Red Sea. The statement suggested the attacks, which killed at least 12 Israelis, were meant as a response to violence in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.Full Story
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