The Hasm Movement
| Hasm Movement | |
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حسم Participant in Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present) |
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| Active | 2016 – present |
| Area of operations | Egypt |
| Opponents |
 Government of Egypt (post-2013) |
The Arms of Egypt Movement (Arabic: حركة ساعد مَصر Ḥaraka Sā‘ad Maṣr), commonly known as the Hasm Movement (Arabic: حسم), is an Islamist militant group operating in Egypt.
On 5 August 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on the former Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa.
On 29 September 2016, the Hasm movement attempted to kill Zakaria Abdel Aziz, a senior assistant to Egypt's top prosecutor, as he was returning home from his office in eastern Cairo. The bomb failed to kill or hurt Aziz and his entourage, though one passerby was injured and taken to hospital.
On 4 November 2016, the Hasm movement claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on local judge Ahmed Aboul Fotouh in Nasr City. Judge Fotouh was one of three judges who sentenced former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to twenty years in prison in 2015.
On 9 December 2016, the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for an attack on a checkpoint on a main road near the Giza pyramid complex on the outskirts of Cairo, which killed six police officers.
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