President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the Memorial for the Martyrs of the Armed Forces in Nasr City. Photo by Egyptian Presidency.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defence and Military Production General Abdel Mageed Saqr, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa, and several senior state officials received President El-Sisi.
The president also laid a wreath of flowers at the tomb of late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.
El-Sadat led Egypt during the October 1973 war, which paved the way for the liberation of Sinai.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi visiting the tomb of the late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat. Photo by Egyptian Presidency.
The Sinai Liberation Day marks the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982.
In 1979, President El-Sadat and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in Washington.
Before that, the Egyptian and Israeli sides signed the Camp David Accords, brokered by the United States, in 1978.
Egypt had designated the day a paid
official holiday to celebrate this glorious occasion.
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