Qatar condemned the Islamist militant attacks against a number of Egypt's armed forces checkpoints in Northern Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah on Wednesday and offered its condolences to the families of the victims, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. In a press statement by the Qatari foreign ministry, Doha said that such “criminal acts” seeks to “destabilise Egypt's security, adding that they “violate all religious and humanitarian principles.” Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered his condolences to the Egyptian state and people after meeting the Egyptian Ambassador to Palestine in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas condemned the “terrorist attacks that attempt to harm Egypt and undermine its important role in the Middle East”, Egypt's state-run news agency MENA reported. In a phone conversation with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah offered his condolences over the killing of dozens of Egyptian military personnel. Sheikh Al-Sabah stressed to El-Sisi Kuwait's backing to the measures adopted by Egypt to guarantee its security, and expressed Kuwait's willingness to provide Cairo with all the tools it needs to combat these “ criminal acts," Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/134325.aspx
