location: Al Arish
notes: A veterinary doctor was assassinated on 12 February at the hands of anonymous militants, who shot him while leaving his private clinic in Al-Obour suburb in North Sinai's city of Al-Arish. A North Sinai-based journalist claimed the 'the Coptic veterinary doctor was killed by the militants of the IS-affiliated group of Sinai Province'.
target_text: location: Al Arish, fatalities: 1