The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs has received the news about the incidents of “horrific” killing – to say the least-of Egyptian Coptic families and of the preceding and subsequent attempts by the forces of darkness to drive Egyptian citizens to abandon their homes and relatives and leave their city. Subsequently, thirty families were forced to leave their homeland and their families and migrate to the city of Ismailia.

Accordingly, this terrorist incident is a grave development in Egypt’s war against terrorism, and should not simply be a confrontation between the forces of darkness, on the one hand, and the armed forces and the police on the other, but must mobilize all Egyptians to defend the identity of their homeland and the dignity of their state. In this regard, it is imperative to clarify the dimensions of this terrorist incident for this mobilization to take place.

The Arish terrorist incidents are a grave development in the battle forced upon Egypt. Egyptians can only win with the people’s solidarity with their armed forces and police in this war, which targets Egypt’s identity and national and human fabric.