7 March – A train accident in the Egyptian city of Qalyub, killing four people and injuring 26 people
June
3 June – An Egyptian police officer was killed after he crossed the Egyptian-Israeli border. He had killed three Israeli soldiers. His body was later returned to Egypt.[4]
13 June – Fifteen people are killed and two others are injured after a minibus collides into a parked pickup truck in El Saff.[6]
26 June – At least 5 people, including a child, are killed, and five others injured after a 14-story building collapsed in the Sid Beshr area, east of Alexandria.[7]
September
11 September – Reda Hegazy as Minister of Education announced plans for schools to Ban the Niqab.[8][9][10]
20 October – After President El Sisi refused to allow Palestinians Living in Gaza to enter Egypt, Protests broke out across the country, Especially near the Rafah border crossing and in El Tahrir Square.
22 October – An Israeli tank accidentally hits an Egyptian position near the border with Gaza. Several Egyptian border guards sustained injuries from fragments of a shell.[14]
27 October – Six people were lightly injured after a drone crashed into a building in Taba. The six people would be discharged from the hospital after receiving the necessary first aid.[15][16]
28 October –
An Egyptian Army spokesperson said in a statement that investigations into the two drones that fell in Nuweiba and in Taba yesterday showed that they were heading from the south of the Red Sea to the north.[17]
The Egyptian foreign ministry has warned of the "humanitarian and security repercussions of the Israeli ground attack" on Gaza, saying "we hold the Israeli government responsible for violating the United Nations General Assembly resolution for an immediate ceasefire and implementing a humanitarian truce”.[19]
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