South Sinai Governorate

A Liberia-flagged tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Red Sea causing minor damage, but no casualties, British maritime security agencies said on Thursday.

According to Tradewinds, the vessel is Greek-managed.

The incident occurred about 73 nautical miles (135 kilometers) southwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, security firm Ambrey said.

Russia and Egypt are to resume direct flights on April 11 following a more than two-year hiatus after a bomb downed a Russian charter over the Sinai peninsula in 2015.

Egypt has reopened an ancient library which holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in South Sinai.

Egypt mourns as the death toll from a gun and bomb assault on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula soared above 300 on Nov. 25, including children, in the deadliest attack the country has witnessed.

The Israeli authorities on Sept. 11 issued severe travel warnings urging Israeli travelers to avoid places where they would be prime targets for jihadist militants, including Turkey and much of the Middle East, The Times of Israel has reported.

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on April 10, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as authorities closed a border crossing over security threats, officials said.

The incident, which did not cause injuries or major damage, came only hours before the start of the week-long Jewish Passover holiday at sundown.

A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash earlier this year.

The airlines first suspended flights after the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on Oct. 31 in which all 224 people on board died.

Easyjet, who along with other airlines had cancelled all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh up to this week, said today that all flights to and from the Egyptian resort would be cancelled until 6 January.

The Islamic State (IS) group said on Wednesday that a homemade bomb had brought down the Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt in October, Reuters reported.

The English-language Dabiq magazine of the jhihadist organization published a photo of a Schweppes soft drink can and "what appeared to be a detonator and switch", the newswire said.

Russian Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said that the explosion of a homemade bomb of up to 1kg of TNT equivalent was the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia flight 9268 A321 airbus over Sinai, Egypt, while en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31.