Hasm Movement

Not to be confused withHazzm Movement.

Hasm Movement
حسم
Logo of the Hasm Movement
Dates of operation	2016 – present
Active regions	Egypt
Ideology	Islamism Egyptian nationalism
Opponents	Egypt
Battles and wars	Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present)

TheArms of Egypt Movement(Arabic:حركة سواعد مِصرḤarakatSāwa'dMiṣr), commonly known as theHasm Movement(Arabic:حسم), is an Islamist militant group operating inEgypt.

The group despite having little uptime, has shown to have a very advanced organization and deployment which has led the security forces to link them with theMuslim Brotherhood.

History

Armed campaign

2016

On 16 July 2016 militants opened fire on a police vehicle in Tamiyyah,Faiyum,killing one officer and two were wounded in the attack. On 5 August, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for anassassinationattempt on the formerGrand Mufti of EgyptAli Gomaa.

On September 4 conscripst of theCentral Security Forceswere wounded after tried to defuse an improvised device in the city ofDamietta.The Hasm Movement claimed this attack.Four days later, militants shot dead a police officer, inSixth of October city,Giza. 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.

Days later, militants attacked a police officer near his house inMahmoudiyah,Beheira,killing the officer. On 4 November 2016, the Hasm movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on local judge Ahmed Aboul Fotouh inNasr City.Judge Fotouh was one of three judges who sentenced former IslamistPresidentMohamed Morsito twenty years in prison in 2015.

On 9 December 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint on a main road near theGiza pyramid complexon the outskirts ofCairo,which killed sixpolice officers.

2017

Militants opened fire anEgyptian National Police(ENP) vehicle inIbsheway,Faiyum, leaving one officer killed and other wounded.

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.During the next monts the movement continued with his armed activity

On May 1, militants attacked a convoy ofENP agentskilling three officers and wounded other five, this attack were inNasr City,Cairo.On January 18, an explosive device blasts and opened fire on a police vehicle inMaadineighborhood, 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.

2019

The group was accused of being behind the2019 Cairo explosion,which resulted in 20 deaths and 47 injured,but the group had denied the allegations.

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 inGiza,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.

Arrests

Security forces arrested three people who were detained for possible involvement in the attack that occurred in December, that killed six officers.

Designation as a terrorist group

• On 22 December 2017, theUnited Kingdombanned HASM as a 'proscribed terrorist organisation'.
• On 31 January 2018, theUnited Statesdesignated HASM as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' entity.During may of 2017, US authorities warned their citizens about the risks of possible attacks against authorities, civilians and tourists

See also

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

External links

• Hassm Movement (Tracking Terrorism)
• Tracking Hasam Movement: Egypt's Ambitious New Militant Group
• Emergence of Hasm Movement indicates militants' attempt to revive Islamist insurgency in mainland Egypt
• Hasam Movement (timep.org)