Egypt ramps up home demolitions in Sinai campaign

BEIRUT, May 22 (AFP): Egypt's army has drastically stepped up its demolitions of homes, businesses and farms in the Sinai since launching a widespread campaign against militants in February, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The watchdog said it documented at least 3,000 homes and commercial properties destroyed in the peninsula, where Egypt has battled a long-running jihadist insurgency. The New York-based group said the demolitions and forced evictions, near the border with the Gaza Strip in Sinai, was making an already perilous humanitarian situation worse.