source: Facebook; New Arab
actor1: Islamic State (Egypt)
actor2: Military Forces of Egypt (2014-)
location: Rafah
notes: On 27 March 2020, Islamic State militants attacked a checkpoint belonging to the Egyptian Military Forces in Rafah (Rafah, North Sinai), shooting soldiers at close range. A total of 7 soldiers were either wounded or killed, but the distribution of fatalities versus injuries was not reported. Unknown number of fatalities coded as 3.