Introduction 

On the early morning of July 1st, 2015 about 300+ Islamic State (IS) militants attacked 15 checkpoints, at the same time, belonging to the Egyptian Army in the Sinai peninsula. Each checkpoint had about 18-25 Egyptian Army soldiers and officers, with some checkpoints having M1A1 and M60A3 Patton tanks stationed as well as M113 armored personnel carriers. Despite being outnumbered the Egyptian Army lost 18 of the bravest men and suffered only 13 injuries throughout the whole of the battle, which lasted about 6-8 hours.

The Story of Abdel Rahman

A 19 year old soldier named Abdel Rahman was in one of the checkpoints when the militants attacked, Abdel Rahman took 3 hits in different areas of his body, but he was not out of the fight just yet, this brave soldier managed to kill 12 IS militants before finally taking a final bullet to the head.

Islam the IS killer

In another checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of "Sheikh Zewayed," a young soldier named Islam was positioned at the rear entrance to a building his unit was stationed in during the attack. This brave young man fought bravely and did not allow a single IS militant reach the building and out flank his unit, alone he managed to kill 8 militants  before taking a direct hit from a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) dying instantly.

Ramy the fighter

Ramy a soldier that personally requested from his SO to transfer to Sinai to finish his last 60 days of his military service there, bravely fought, diving and grabbing enemy thrown grenades and throwing them back at them. Ramy took a direct RPG hit ending this brave soldiers life.

The checkpoint that never gave up

3 soldiers in another checkpoint stood right in front of an oncoming trucked filled with TNT explosives, taking the full blast of the explosion themselves and preventing the pickup truck from exploding near the checkpoint and saving their team members lives by risking their own. At the same checkpoint, the checkpoint's commanding officer,who was so badly hit that he passed out, when he regained consciousness however; he managed to crawl all the way to a box filled with F-1 grenades and throw about 20 or so grenades towards the attacking IS militants. The officers and soldiers ran out of ammo but they never retreated, they crawled and grabbed weapons from the dead IS militants and started using it against them.

Final outcome 

The Egyptian Army has managed to kill about 200+ of the total 300+ attacking militants while the Egyptian Air Force provided cover and bombing support using F-16s and AH-64 Apaches. The injured soldiers are all currently being treated and all of them have said that once they heal they will be putting their uniform back on and go back to Sinai and continue fighting. These are just a few stories of the battle you won't read on CNN, BBC, AP and the Guardian, the stories of one of the bravest men i have ever witnessed. As an American living in Egypt for 17 years now, I proudly say that I had the privilege to join an Egyptian Army tank battalion for about a week during daily routine checkpoints and I can say with all honesty that I have never seen an Army full of brave young men fighting not for themselves to survive but for god, country and honor. May god rest the souls of all the soldiers that perished during one of the toughest battles the Egyptian Army had to fight since the start of its war on terror.

RIP 

 

Update 7/5/15

The Army has released a computer generated video showing the attack and the battle to follow at a few checkpoints (Video has English Subtitles)

Edited July 5, 201510 yr by scot619

I was interested to read more, and there are no search results for any part of this story. OP, are you really living in Egypt?

Edited July 5, 201510 yr by Riley24

I was interested to read more, and there are no search results for any part of this story. OP, are you really living in Egypt?

Ya unfortunately as I said before international media doesn't think that this is an important enough topic to cover let alone talk about, I could give you the links to the stories and the injured soldiers testimonies videos but unfortunately they are all in Arabic. Yes I really am living in Egypt, it's a beautiful country, it's not like they ride camels and live in tents lol, it's a very well developed country :) 

I believe you should split your story in different parts, because even though it's interesting to read, it's really a pain to read as well from the beginning to the end with this huge block of words.

I believe you should split your story in different parts, because even though it's interesting to read, it's really a pain to read as well from the beginning to the end with this huge block of words.

I fixed it up and also shared a video that the Army just released which has English subtitles  

Wow, these guys are extremely brave! RIP as well :(