| 2015 Arish attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Sinai insurgency | |
  Al-Arish Al-Arish (Egypt) | |
| Location |  Al-Arish, North Sinai, Egypt |
| Date | 24 November 2015 07:00 (EET) |
| Target | Election officials, security forces |
Attack type | Suicide bombing, car bombing, shooting |
| Deaths | 7 |
| Injured | 10+ |
| Perpetrators |  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
|
The Arish hotel bombing was a terrorist attack on a hotel in the coastal city of Al-Arish, Egypt, on 24 November 2015. A group of militants approached the heavily guarded hotel with a car bomb, but Egyptian security forces opened fire at the vehicle, blowing it up before it could reach the building. One of the two attackers managed to get inside the hotel, where a number of people were injured and killed as a result of gunfire and a subsequent suicide bombing. Authorities reported at least seven dead, including two judges who had been in Al-Arish to supervise the country's second round of parliamentary elections, held the day before. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai offshoot claimed responsibility in a statement released later the same day.[1][2][3]
- ^ "ISIS Claims Hotel Attack That Killed 7, Wounded 10 in Egypt's Sinai". NBC News. Associated Press. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ "Militants Attack Hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Killing at Least 7". The New York Times. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ Hashem, Mostafa (24 November 2015). "IS militants claim hotel attack that killed seven in Egypt's Sinai". Reuters.