The Egyptian state is not able to defend the Copts, a message meant to be sent by unmasked elements of ISIS terrorist group in Al-Arish. The message was not written on papers, but on the dead body of Bassem Shehata Haraz, a 27-year-old Copt from Al-Arish, who was shot dead on January 13rd in his hometown.
Haraz had left Arish in February 2017 with other 355 Coptic families fleeing Al-Arish after eight Copts have been killed by the Islamists who promised more Coptic martyrs if the Christians remained in town. The young man and his brother left until they thought it became safe , and they opened their shops in their hometown again to earn their living, but he was really waiting for his destiny to receive a bullet in the head only because he has a cross tattooed on his wrist like most of the Christians in Egypt.
His brother said he received a threat by phone from a man who said belonged to Ansar Bait al-Maqdes, a terrorist Islamic jihadi group promising to kill more and more Christians! it s worth mentioning that Bassem Haraz is the second Copt to be killed on returning to Arish. The first was Nabil Saber Fawzy, 40, a barber who was killed last May. Now, we should wonder: whose turn is next?
