The public prosecutor announced that former president Morsi will be tried for inciting violence. Authorities destroyed a number of homes near Gaza as a ‘prelude’ to the possible construction of a buffer zone with the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave. A top jihadist recently arrested in the Sinai admitted to being responsible for the recent killing of over 20 policemen. Islamists were suspected to be behind the killing of a Copt in the Sinai. Three people were arrested for firing on ships passing through the Suez Canal. Family members of al Qaeda’s emir Ayman al Zawahiri were recently arrested in Nasr City.
