An article in Foreign Policy magazine criticized what he described as the inability of the United States to monitor military aid to combat terrorism in Egypt.
The author of the article, Jacques Deitch, stated that the United States - according to a review conducted by the magazine obtained an exclusive copy of it - lacks the vision about how Egypt uses the weapons provided by Washington in the Sinai Peninsula, and this is a weakness that Congress worries about the possibility of limiting the ability of the administration of President Donald Trump to Investigate human rights violations in the ongoing fight against ISIS.
The Foreign Ministry pointed out that Egypt allowed only US forces stationed in Sinai to enter a non-frequent basis to monitor allegations of human rights violations, and that Cairo had recently started to purchase Russian and French weapons in large numbers, which limits the American vision.
"As a result, it is very difficult to determine whether the US defense tools were used in a specific operation or maneuver," she said in her report, adding that US forces do not have a fixed access on the ground in the Sinai.
"The US government generally lacks sufficient information to link certain equipment of American origin with alleged violations of international human rights or international humanitarian law by the Egyptian security forces," the report added.
The American magazine pointed to a foreign assessment issued last year that concluded that the Egyptian government "committed arbitrary or unlawful killings" at times with impunity, as Sisi sought to double anti-drug operations and suppress arms smuggling in North Sinai bordering the Gaza Strip.
In 2019, Human Rights Watch said it had documented 20 extrajudicial killings of detainees in North Sinai in recent years.
Foreign Policy quoted a Wall Street Journal report last month that Defense Secretary Mark Esber was considering cutting the 400-million-strong US emergency force in Sinai as part of a global review of the Pentagon's presence, since "terrorist attacks led by the Islamic State in the region" - according to official statistics. - It decreased to 282 from 377 in 2018 and 742 the year before.