Hasm Movement

Hasm Movement
حسم
Participant in Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present)
Active 2015 – present
Ideology Islamism
Area of operations Egypt
Part of Muslim Brotherhood
Opponents  Government of Egypt (post-2013)

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

Attacks

On 5 August 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on the former Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

Designation as a terrorist group

  • On 22 December 2017, the United Kingdom banned HASM as a 'proscribed terrorist organisation'.[5]
  • On 31 January 2018, the United States designated HASM as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' entity.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Who's behind assassination attempt on former Egyptian mufti?". 16 August 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Recently-emerged militant group claims attack on Egyptian prosecutor
  3. ↑ Editorial, Reuters. "Egyptian judge who tried Mursi survives assassination attempt". Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Bombing kills six near pyramids in Cairo". 9 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. ↑ http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/12/23/UK-designates-Hasm-Liwaa-el-Thawra-militant-group-in-Egypt-as-terrorist-.html
  6. ↑ https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/01/277792.htm
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