Hasm Movement

The Arms of Egypt Movement (Arabic: حركة سواعد مَصر‎ Ḥarakat Sāwa'd Miṣr), commonly known as the Hasm Movement (Arabic: حسم‎), is an Islamist militant group operating in Egypt.[2]

Not to be confused with Hazzm Movement.
Hasm Movement
حسم
Dates of operation2015 – present
Active regionsEgypt
IdeologyIslamism
Opponents Egypt
Battles and warsInsurgency in Egypt (2013–present)

History

On 5 August 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on the former Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa.[3]

On 29 September 2016, the Hasm movement attempted to kill Zakaria Abdel Aziz, a senior assistant to Egypt's top prosecutor, as he was returning home from his office in eastern Cairo. The bomb failed to kill or hurt Aziz and his entourage, though one passerby was injured and taken to hospital.[4]

On 4 November 2016, the Hasm movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on local judge Ahmed Aboul Fotouh in Nasr City. Judge Fotouh was one of three judges who sentenced former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to twenty years in prison in 2015.[5]

On 9 December 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint on a main road near the Giza pyramid complex on the outskirts of Cairo, which killed six police officers.[6]

The group was accused of being behind the 2019 Cairo explosion, which resulted in 20 deaths and 47 injured,[7] but the group had denied the allegations.[8]

On 11 April 2019, Egyptian government forces reportedly killed 6 members of the group in an armed confrontation, after discovering a plot to plant bombs in Giza, members of the group began shooting at police as they approached them for questioning resulting in a fire fight, after the fight several firearms and bomb making materials were discovered.[9]

Designation as a terrorist group
  • On 22 December 2017, the United Kingdom banned HASM as a 'proscribed terrorist organisation'.[10]
  • On 31 January 2018, the United States designated HASM as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' entity.[11]

See also

References
  1. "حركة سواعد مصر / حسم". Telegram. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  2. "Egypt: Hasm militants kill dozens of police after botched raid". dw.com. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  3. Mostafa, Amr (16 August 2016). "Who's behind assassination attempt on former Egyptian mufti?". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. "Recently-emerged militant group claims attack on Egyptian prosecutor". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya Network. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  5. el Sherif, Mohamed; Aboulenein, Ahmed (4 November 2016). Liffey, Kevin (ed.). "Egyptian judge who tried Mursi survives assassination attempt". Reuters. The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. Dearden, Lizzie (9 December 2016). "Bombing kills six near pyramids in Cairo". Independent. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  7. Awadalla, Nadine; Eltahir, Nafisa (5 August 2019). MacSwan, Angus (ed.). "Car involved in Cairo blast contained explosives: interior ministry". Reuters. The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  8. Raghavan, Sudarsan (5 August 2019). Mahfouz, Heba Farouk (ed.). "Explosives-packed car kills 20, injures dozens in Cairo collision". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  9. "Security forces kill 6 terrorist affiliated with Hasm". Egypt Today. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  10. AP (22 December 2017). "UK designates 'Hasm', 'Liwaa el-Thawra' militant groups in Egypt as 'terrorist'". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  11. "State Department Terrorist Designations of Ismail Haniyeh, Harakat al-Sabireen, Liwa al-Thawra, and Harakat Sawa'd Misr (HASM)". Bureau of Public Affairs. U.S. State Department. 31 January 2018. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
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