2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings

2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings
Part of terrorism in Egypt
LocationSharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt
Date23 July 2005
01:15 am – 01:20 am (UTC+3)
TargetA market and hotels
Attack type
Suicide bombings
Deaths88
Injured~150
PerpetratorsAbdullah Azzam Brigades

The 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings were committed by Islamist group Abdullah Azzam Brigades on 23 July 2005 in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. Eighty-eight people were killed by the three bombings, the majority of them Egyptians, and over 200 were injured, making the attack the deadliest terrorist action in the history of Egypt, until it was surpassed by the 2017 Sinai mosque attack.

The attack took place on Egypt's Revolution Day, a public holiday, and was part of a strategy of damaging tourism in the country, a major part of the economy.

After the attacks, many arrests took place, especially of the Bedouin in the Sinai, who allegedly aided the attack, and Egypt started erecting a separation barrier around the city, cutting it off from possible attacks and the nearby Bedouin community.[1]

  1. ^ מצרים בונה גדר ביטחון סביב שארם א-שייח [Egypt is building a security fence around Sharm el-Sheikh]. Walla! News (in Hebrew). News.walla.co.il. Retrieved 15 May 2014.