Raid on Kerdasa

Battle of Kerdasa
Part of the Post-coup unrest in Egypt
DateSeptember 19, 2013
Location
Kerdasa and Nahya, Egypt
Result Government victory
Belligerents

Egypt Police
Egypt Military

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants

Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya
Casualties and losses
1 police general killed
10 injured
65–85 arrested

The raid on Kerdasa (Arabic: معركة كرداسة) took place on September 19, 2013, in Kerdasa when Egyptian security forces stormed the town to cleanse it from alleged terrorist spots. The operation was in response to an earlier massacre on August 14 the same year, where protesters attacked a police station killing eleven security personnel shortly after the Egyptian security forces had launched a violent crackdown and massacre on two protest camps in Cairo where hundreds of supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi were killed. The raid came a few days after a similar operation in Minya's town of Dalga, and was part of a larger crackdown by the interim government on armed supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.