According to a security source, an extensive crackdown in southern Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah resulted in the death of seven suspected extremists, the arrest of eight others and the demolition of a number of terrorist hotbeds.
The source added on Sunday that the crackdown used planes and ground forces to raid known terrorist hideouts that were used in attacks against the army and the police.
The raid destroyed six houses, 12 shanty huts, a warehouse storing explosives, four cars and seven motorcycles.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
