(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - A video released last week by Wilayat Sinai, the Islamic State offshoot in Sinai, shows a Kornet anti-tank missile being fired at an Egyptian air force helicopter parked at the military airport near Al-Arish. The missile hit the helicopter and killed three people - one of the pilots, a security guard, and the bureau chief of Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhy. The strike was an assassination attempt against Sobhy and Egyptian Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar during their visit to the base.
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