Spokesperson of the Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Gehad el Haddad, on Monday accused blamed the Egyptian military's "hostile" behaviour towards people in the Sinai Peninsula for the violence that has escalated in the lawless peninsula in the aftermath of the army's ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
"Morsi made investments in the Sinai and gave the people again the sense of feeling that they are Egyptians," Haddad told the Anadolu Agency.
Haddad pointed out that the Egyptian army has a discriminatory behaviour against the people in the Sinai and treated them harshly.
"We know which tactics the army use in the region and how they communicate with the people. The army prefers heavy-handed tactics instead of dialogue and that is why the positive dialogue which was build by Morsi has been destroyed," he said.
The region has been the scene of almost daily attacks by unknown militants since the military removed Morsi from office on July 3.
At least twenty-four people, both civilians and police and army personnel, have been killed in militant attacks in Sinai since June 30.
