Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the Negev desert have rallied for the fourth consecutive day to protest Israeli attempts to evict them from their lands.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounces the Egyptian military’s ongoing demolitions and forced evictions in the restive North Sinai region, saying the practices constitute “violations of international humanitarian law” and likely amount to “war crimes.”

US Army identifies five soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Sinai, Egypt.

The Egyptian army fends off a militant attack on a post in Egypt’s North Sinai Province, killing 18 militants.

Egypt has for years been battling a long-running insurgency in North Sinai.

At least four people, including one civilian, are killed in militant attacks on a number of security checkpoints in Egypt’s northern Sinai.

Human Rights Watch says Egyptian security forces have committed “war crimes” by allegedly targeting civilians in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula.