Hamdy Badeen

Head of the military police Major General Hamdy Badeen walks during a funeral for soldiers, who were killed during an attack at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel by unknown gunmen, near the tomb of the late President Anwar al-Sadat and the Unknown Soldier monument, Cairo, 7 August 2012. Egypt began work to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian jihadi militants.