There is hate and revenge again among families and tribes of the governorate of Qena including, the Hawara, Al-Ashraaf (Egyptians who can claim the Prophet Muhammad is their ancestor through his grandsons Hassan and Hussien) and the Arabi families. This time the outbreaks were strong and threatened security disaster in the governorate, after the conflict arose between al-Ashraaf and Arabi in villages and hamlets of Samta. There were kidnaps and intense gunfire exchange, which threatened the agricultural road Egypt-Aswan. Conflict transferred to Deshna Center, between the Hawara tribe including el-Etmana and Abdel Kader on the first day of Eid al-Adha and resulted in 1 dead and 7 injured. There was conflict in the village of Abu Hazim at Nag Hammadi between el-Hamameya and el-Sadat, resulting in the death of more than 10 people. There was a blockade imposed by families of the villages, which banned the entrance or exit of anyone except for food transfer. Schools were closed in these villages and life stopped there. Security forces have difficulty controlling the situation due to the lack of security and the big number of villages and the hamlets. Conflict started between both tribes of the villages of al-Ashraaf in el-Shwaykhat and the Arabi tribe in el-Samta, after the later tribe accused the first one of kidnapping two people. In return, the Arabis kidnapped seven people of the al-Ashraad tribe. Two people of the villages of el-Samta, who belong to the Eweida family in Nag Hammadi, were driving a car and heading to drug dealers in the mountain, according to eyewitnesses. Witnesses added both people were going to buy large amounts of marijuana and hashish. The residents were able to find the car but they couldn't find these the two people. The Eweida family couldn't find their kidnapped sons after a long search. El-Samta families thought the residents of el-Shwaykhat kidnapped their sons, and so they blocked off the road between Cairo-Aswan at Samta entrance and kidnapped nine of Al-Ashraaf tribe, four of them from el-Shwaykhat and three from Ezbet Hamed. This made both sides open intense gunfire at each other, which resulted in the injury of a Canadian tourist, John Francois, while he was in taxi heading to the Abidos Temble in Sohag. Francois was transferred to Luxor International Hospital immediately and underwent surgery for five hours. He had his pancreas and spleen removed and is still in critical condition. Security forces, lead by Mohamed Abu Halima, succeeded in freeing five of the seven hostages of al-Ashraaf tribe. El-Samta refused to deliver the other hostages until their two remaining hostages were freed. In the villaged of el-Moayesera at Deshna Center, there was conflict between el-Atamna and Abdel Kader, which belong to Hawara tribe. El-Etmana family imposed a blockade on Abdel Kader family and banned food and drink to them. El-Etmana offered Abdel Kader two choices, to either die of starvation or die from gnfire if they tried to leave their homes. The blockade imposed on the village of Abdel Kader since Sunday November 6 in the absence of security forces. Security forces couldn't come near the village, because both families were armed with all kinds of weapons including RPG guns, hand-held bombs and machine guns. Investigations revealed all the injured and the killed of both families were shot by bullets made in Israel.
