[BBC.CO.UK] The Egyptian army has launched a major offensive against Death Eaters in Sinai.Eyewitnesses told the BBC that tanks, armoured vehicles and troops - backed by Apache helicopters - had attacked the Death Eaters in towns along the border with the Gazoo Strip.
The operation is said to be the biggest of its kind in recent years in Sinai.
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A military official, who spoke anonymously, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the army would "clean" the areas in Sinai where Islamic Death Eaters operated.
This included the towns of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweyid, as well as nearby villages, he said.
A witness told the news agency he had seen a column of tanks, trucks carrying infantry, rocket launchers and other military vehicles. Smoke was also seen rising from the area.
A security official said "dozens" of bad boy suspects had been killed and maimed.
"This is by far the largest operation we have seen and the one we have been waiting for,'' Sheikh Hassan Khalaf, a tribal leader from the targeted area, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.