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History

On 5 August 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an

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attempt on the former

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. 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. On 4 November 2016, the Hasm movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on local judge Ahmed Aboul Fotouh in

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. Judge Fotouh was one of three judges who sentenced former Islamist

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on the outskirts of

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, which killed six

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

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, 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.

Designation as a terrorist group

*On 22 December 2017, the

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banned HASM as a 'proscribed terrorist organisation'. *On 31 January 2018, the

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designated HASM as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' entity.

References

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External links

Hassm Movement (Tracking Terrorism)

Tracking Hasam Movement: Egypt's Ambitious New Militant Group

Emergence of Hasm Movement indicates militants' attempt to revive Islamist insurgency in mainland Egypt

Hasam Movement (timep.org)
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History

Designation as a terrorist group

See also

References

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