He was working on a construction site, where land was being prepared for the state’s Sinai development plan. The young man was killed in Wefaq village, in the south of Egyptian Rafah, on Sunday by an improvised explosive device (IED).
In a world where we are surrounded by conflict and war, in this latest tragedy we are reminded that once a war has ended, there is still much to be done before we can call it over. The incident was not the first of its kind. Just a week earlier, an IED detonated in an agricultural plot in the Kharouba village in western Sheikh Zuwayed, killing two children and injuring six.
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