Hasm Movement

On 16 July 2016 militants opened fire on a police vehicle in Tamiyyah, Faiyum, killing one officer and two were wounded in the attack.{{cite web|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/33469|title=Egypt Media Roundup|work=Jaddaliyya|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221202928/https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/33469|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2016/07/17/anonymous-gunmen-kill-police-officer-fayoum/|title=Anonymous gunmen kill police officer in Fayoum|work=Daily News Egypt|date=17 July 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221204429/https://dailynewsegypt.com/2016/07/17/anonymous-gunmen-kill-police-officer-fayoum/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=2019-12-14 |title=حركة سواعد مصر / حسم – Telegram |url=https://t.me/s/hasamegypt/2 |access-date=2025-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214205552/https://t.me/s/hasamegypt/2 |archive-date=14 December 2019 }}

On 5 August, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on the former Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa.{{cite news |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/egypt-assassination-attempt-mufti-ali-gomaa-gulen-turkey.html |title=Who's behind assassination attempt on former Egyptian mufti? |date=16 August 2016 |access-date=9 December 2016 |first=Amr |last=Mostafa |work=Al-Monitor |archive-date=21 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821044137/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/egypt-assassination-attempt-mufti-ali-gomaa-gulen-turkey.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2019-12-14 |title=حركة سواعد مصر / حسم – Telegram |url=https://t.me/s/hasamegypt/2 |access-date=2025-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214205552/https://t.me/s/hasamegypt/2 |archive-date=14 December 2019 }}

On September 4 conscripst of the Central Security Forces were wounded after tried to defuse an improvised device in the city of Damietta. The Hasm Movement claimed this attack.{{cite web|url=https://www.egyptindependent.com/four-policemen-injured-while-defusing-bomb-damietta/|title=Four policemen injured while defusing bomb in Damietta|work=Egypt Independent|date=4 September 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221202926/https://www.egyptindependent.com/four-policemen-injured-while-defusing-bomb-damietta/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2016/09/04/543702/|title=3 police officers injured while dismantling bomb in Damietta|work=Daily News Egypt|date=4 September 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221202932/https://dailynewsegypt.com/2016/09/04/543702/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=2019-09-06 |title=حركة سواعد مصر / حسم – Telegram |url=https://t.me/s/hasamegypt?after=17 |access-date=2025-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906063419/https://t.me/s/hasamegypt?after=17 |archive-date=6 September 2019 }} Four days later, militants shot dead and robbed a police officer, in Sixth of October city, Giza.{{cite web|url=https://egyptindependent.com/masked-gunmen-assassinate-police-officer-6th-october/|title=Masked gunmen assassinate police officer in 6th October|work=Egypt Independent|date=9 September 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222025106/https://egyptindependent.com/masked-gunmen-assassinate-police-officer-6th-october/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/what-egypt-s-assassination-attempts-say-about-its-islamist-insurgency/|title=What Egypt's Assassination Attempts Say about its Islamist Insurgency|work=Atlantic Council|date=3 October 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222025104/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/what-egypt-s-assassination-attempts-say-about-its-islamist-insurgency/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=2019-09-06 |title=حركة سواعد مصر / حسم – Telegram |url=https://t.me/s/hasamegypt?after=41 |access-date=2025-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906063431/https://t.me/s/hasamegypt?after=41 |archive-date=6 September 2019 }}

Weeks later (29 September), 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.{{cite news |url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2016/09/30/Car-bomb-explodes-near-Egypt-prosecutor.html |title=Recently-emerged militant group claims attack on Egyptian prosecutor |date=30 September 2016 |access-date=18 December 2019 |work=Al Arabiya English |publisher=Al Arabiya Network |archive-date=25 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825180331/http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2016/09/30/Car-bomb-explodes-near-Egypt-prosecutor.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-blast-idUSKCN11Z2PQ|title=Senior Egyptian prosecutor survives car bomb assassination attempt|work=Reuters|date=29 September 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222042732/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-blast-idUSKCN11Z2PQ|url-status=live}}

Days later, militants attacked a police officer near his house in Mahmoudiyah, Beheira, killing the officer.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-violence-idUSKCN1280L4|title=Militant group claims assassination of Egyptian policeman|work=Reuters|date=8 October 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222042732/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-violence-idUSKCN1280L4|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-violence-idUKKBN12Z1KV |title=Egyptian judge who tried Mursi survives assassination attempt |work=Reuters |publisher=The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles |access-date=9 December 2016 |date=4 November 2016 |first1=Mohamed |last1=el Sherif |first2=Ahmed |last2=Aboulenein |editor-first=Kevin |editor-last=Liffey |archive-date=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413185453/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-violence-idUKKBN12Z1KV |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/controversial-judge-survives-assassination-attempt-in-cairo/a-36268814|title=Judge survives car bomb in Cairo|work=Deutsche Welle|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222042727/https://www.dw.com/en/controversial-judge-survives-assassination-attempt-in-cairo/a-36268814|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cairo-bombing-giza-pyramids-explosion-hasm-movement-claim-police-killed-isis-attacks-egypt-a7465386.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cairo-bombing-giza-pyramids-explosion-hasm-movement-claim-police-killed-isis-attacks-egypt-a7465386.html |archive-date=2022-05-09 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Bombing kills six near pyramids in Cairo |date=9 December 2016 |access-date=9 December 2016 |first=Lizzie |last=Dearden |newspaper=Independent}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/contenu/20161209-bomb-egypt-capital-kills-six|title=Bomb in Egypt capital kills six|work=RFI|date=9 December 2016|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222043505/https://www.rfi.fr/en/contenu/20161209-bomb-egypt-capital-kills-six|url-status=live}}

Militants opened fire an Egyptian National Police (ENP) vehicle in Ibsheway, Faiyum, leaving one officer killed and other wounded.{{cite web|url=https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/04/01/2017/Motorcycle-gunmen-kill-Egypt-policeman-security-sources|title=Motorcycle gunmen kill Egypt policeman: security sources|work=The Peninsula Qatar|date=4 January 2017|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222044359/https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/04/01/2017/Motorcycle-gunmen-kill-Egypt-policeman-security-sources|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=201701030038|title=GTD ID:201701030038|work=Global Terrorism Database|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222044400/https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=201701030038|url-status=live}}

On March 27, 2017, assailants shot and killed a police officer in the village of Basarta, Damietta. Weeks later, security officers shot death the possible attacker responsible for the murder, in the operation, two officers were wounded.{{cite web|url=https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/04/08/news/u/police-kill-believed-militant-in-damietta-town-where-residents-accuse-police-of-illegal-searches/|title=Police kill believed militant in Damietta town where residents accuse police of illegal searches|work=Madamasr|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2020-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521053811/https://madamasr.com/en/2017/04/08/news/u/police-kill-believed-militant-in-damietta-town-where-residents-accuse-police-of-illegal-searches/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/4062/Egyptian-security-agencies-abort-series-of-terrorist-attacks|title=Egyptian security agencies abort series of terrorists attacks|work=Egypt Today|date=18 April 2017|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222045312/https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/4062/Egyptian-security-agencies-abort-series-of-terrorist-attacks|url-status=live}} During the next monts the movement continued with his armed activity {{cite web|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=201704010006|title=GTD ID:201704010006|work=Global Terrorism Database|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222212535/https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=201704010006|url-status=live}}

On May 1, militants attacked a convoy of ENP agents killing three officers and wounded other five, this attack were in Nasr City, Cairo.{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/gunmen-kill-police-officers-in-brazen-cairo-attack/a-38659815|title=Gunmen kill Cairo police in brazen drive-by|work=Deutsche Welle|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222224152/https://www.dw.com/en/gunmen-kill-police-officers-in-brazen-cairo-attack/a-38659815|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/05/02/drive-attack-kills-3-police-personnel-eastern-cairo/|title=Drive-by attack kills 3 police personnel in Eastern Cairo|work=Daily News Egypt|date=2 May 2017|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222224158/https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/05/02/drive-attack-kills-3-police-personnel-eastern-cairo/|url-status=live}} On June 18, an explosive device blasts and opened fire on a police vehicle in Maadi neighborhood, Cairo. The attack left and the group stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the Egyptian government transferring ownership of two islands to Saudi Arabia.{{cite web|url=http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302619584|title=Egyptian police officer killed by roadside bomb in Cairo|work=Emirates News Agency|date=18 June 2017|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222224154/http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302619584|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/06/19/hasm-claims-responsibility-sunday-cairo-attack/|title=Hasm claims responsibility for Sunday Cairo attack|work=Daily News Egypt|date=19 June 2017|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222224156/https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/06/19/hasm-claims-responsibility-sunday-cairo-attack/|url-status=live}}

On September 30, 2017 a small bomb detonated at the embassy of Myanmar in Cairo.There were no casulties. Initially the bombing was reported as a faulty gas-pipeline only a police investigation found remains of a explosive device. The Hasm Movement took responsebility for the attack, stating that it was in retaliation for actions of the gouverment of Myanmar in the Rohynga Conflict. Myanmars Gouverment Spokesmen urged citizents abord to be carefull.{{Cite web |last=AfricaNews |date=2017-10-02 |title=Egyptian militant group claims attack on Myanmar embassy in Cairo |url=https://www.africanews.com/2017/10/02/egyptian-militant-group-claims-attack-on-myanmar-embassy-in-cairo/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Africanews |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Egyptian militant group claims attack on Myanmar embassy in Cairo {{!}} Africanews |url=https://www.africanews.com/2017/10/02/egyptian-militant-group-claims-attack-on-myanmar-embassy-in-cairo/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619063513/https://www.africanews.com/2017/10/02/egyptian-militant-group-claims-attack-on-myanmar-embassy-in-cairo/ |archive-date=19 June 2024 }}{{Cite web |date=2018-03-31 |title=حركة سواعد مصر /حسم – بسواعدنا نحمي ثورتنا |url=https://hasamegypt.com/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331191143/https://hasamegypt.com/ |archive-date=31 March 2018 }}

The group was accused of being behind the 2019 Cairo explosion, which resulted in 20 deaths and 47 injured,{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-security-blast-ministry/car-involved-in-cairo-blast-contained-explosives-interior-ministry-idUSKCN1UV1K6 |title=Car involved in Cairo blast contained explosives: interior ministry |date=5 August 2019 |access-date=18 December 2019 |work=Reuters |first1=Nadine |last1=Awadalla |first2=Nafisa |last2=Eltahir |editor-first=Angus |editor-last=MacSwan |publisher=The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles |archive-date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806103107/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-security-blast-ministry/car-involved-in-cairo-blast-contained-explosives-interior-ministry-idUSKCN1UV1K6 |url-status=live }} but the group had denied the allegations.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/explosives-packed-car-kills-20-injures-dozens-in-cairo-collision/2019/08/05/1cf14256-b798-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html |title=Explosives-packed car kills 20, injures dozens in Cairo collision |first=Sudarsan |last=Raghavan |date=5 August 2019 |access-date=18 December 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |editor-first=Heba Farouk |editor-last=Mahfouz |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201141753/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/explosives-packed-car-kills-20-injures-dozens-in-cairo-collision/2019/08/05/1cf14256-b798-11e9-8e83-4e6687e99814_story.html |url-status=live }}

On 11 April 2019, Egyptian government forces reportedly killed 6 members of the group in an armed confrontation, after discovering a plot to plant bombs in Giza, members of the group began shooting at police as they approached them for questioning resulting in a fire fight, after the fight several firearms and bomb making materials were discovered.{{cite news |url=https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/68220/Security-forces-kill-6-terrorist-affiliated-with-Hasm |title=Security forces kill 6 terrorist affiliated with Hasm |date=12 April 2019 |access-date=18 December 2019 |magazine=Egypt Today |archive-date=13 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613021335/http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/68220/Security-forces-kill-6-terrorist-affiliated-with-Hasm |url-status=live }}

Security forces arrested three people who were detained for possible involvement in the attack that occurred in December, that killed six officers.{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-arrests-suspected-cairo-checkpoint-attackers|title=Egypt arrests suspected Cairo checkpoint attackers|work=Middle East Eye|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222044402/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-arrests-suspected-cairo-checkpoint-attackers|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/egypt-arrests-suspected-cairo-checkpoint-attackers-221137176.html|title=Egypt arrests suspected Cairo checkpoint attackers|work=Yahoo|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=2023-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222044358/https://news.yahoo.com/egypt-arrests-suspected-cairo-checkpoint-attackers-221137176.html|url-status=live}}

• On 22 December 2017, the United Kingdom banned HASM as a 'proscribed terrorist organisation'.{{cite news |url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/12/23/UK-designates-Hasm-Liwaa-el-Thawra-militant-group-in-Egypt-as-terrorist-.html |title=UK designates 'Hasm', 'Liwaa el-Thawra' militant groups in Egypt as 'terrorist' |date=22 December 2017 |access-date=18 December 2019 |work=Al Arabiya English |author=AP |author-link=Associated Press |publisher=Al Arabiya |archive-date=25 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825180338/http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/12/23/UK-designates-Hasm-Liwaa-el-Thawra-militant-group-in-Egypt-as-terrorist-.html |url-status=live }}
• On 31 January 2018, the United States designated HASM as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' entity.{{cite news |url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/01/277792.htm |title=State Department Terrorist Designations of Ismail Haniyeh, Harakat al-Sabireen, Liwa al-Thawra, and Harakat Sawa'd Misr (HASM) |date=31 January 2018 |access-date=18 December 2019 |work=Bureau of Public Affairs |publisher=U.S. State Department |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104013222/https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/01/277792.htm |archive-date=4 November 2018}} During May 2017, US authorities warned their citizens about the risks of possible attacks against authorities, civilians and tourists{{cite web|url=https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/24/news/u/us-embassy-warns-of-possible-egypt-attack-by-hassm-militants/|title=US Embassy warns of possible Egypt attack by Hassm militants|work=Madamasr|access-date=2023-02-22|archive-date=2021-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303171447/https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/24/news/u/us-embassy-warns-of-possible-egypt-attack-by-hassm-militants/|url-status=live}}

• Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
• Terrorism in Egypt
• Muslim Brotherhood

{{Reflist|2}}

• [http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/hassm-movement-egypts-forearms Hassm Movement (Tracking Terrorism)]
• [https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/tracking-hasam-movement-egypts-ambitious-new-militant-group Tracking Hasam Movement: Egypt's Ambitious New Militant Group]
• [http://www.janes.com/article/64368/emergence-of-hasm-movement-indicates-militants-attempt-to-revive-islamist-insurgency-in-mainland-egypt Emergence of Hasm Movement indicates militants' attempt to revive Islamist insurgency in mainland Egypt]
• [https://timep.org/esw/terror-groups/hasam-movement/ Hasam Movement (timep.org)]

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