RAMALLAH,
February 16, 2015 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas late Sunday condemned what
he described as the barbarous murder of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians believed
to had been kidnapped by the so-called ISIS-affiliated militants in Libya.
Abbas
said the “heinous crime” testifies to the radical nature of ISIS, which stands
for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and that does not distinguish between
Muslims and Christians when it comes to committing a crime of this type.
Last
night, a video footage published online showed masked militants purportedly
belonging to ISIS in Libya beheading 21 members of Egypt's Coptic Christian
minority on Libya’s coast.
Shortly
after the video was released, the Egyptian Armed Forces said that its war
planes had struck ISIS targets in Libya, shortly after President Abdel Fatah
al-Sisi vowed revenge for the beheadings.
ISIS
is originally based in Iraq and Syria, as the name itself suggests, but later
announced it had spread through parts of Libya and the Sinai peninsula.
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