CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian military campaign to defeat Islamic State militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula is choking essential food and medical supplies to thousands of residents in the desert region, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The army denied the charge.
The New York-based organisation warned of a wider humanitarian crisis if North Sinai continued to be cut off from the Egyptian mainland, saying the army's actions "border on collective punishment".
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