Areesh_Sinai_security_06A.JPG
Armed Bedouin watchmen Fayez Eid (r) and Mohamed Ouda pose for a photo as they stand guard on the perimeter of a recently bombed natural gas pumping station, one of more than a dozen located just outside the North Sinai town of Areesh, Egypt (40 kilometers from the border with Israel.) Since the Egyptian revolution, a decline in the number of police across the Sinai has resulted in a boom in the smuggling business and a spate of bombings targeting the natural gas export pipeline to neighboring Israel..
Add to Lightbox Download