ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILTY FOR THE PALM SUNDAY BOMBINGS!

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the two attacks that took place in Egypt this morning, during the PALM SUNDAY service.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo Egypt condemened the attack the attack in a statement.

"The U.S. embassy condemns the heinous, reprehensible terrorist attack against peaceful worshippers at Saint George’s Church in Tanta on one of the holiest days of the Christian year, Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of this horrific attack. We express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims, and we wish the injured a speedy recovery. The United States stands firmly with the Egyptian government and people to defeat terrorism, the United States stands firmly with the Egyptian government and people to defeat terrorism," " the embassy said.

The two bombings on Palm Sunday which killed 44 people and injured over 100 people. The attack follow warning by ISIS that they will escalate attack on Egypt Christians, which make up to 10% of the country's population.

They vowed to keep attacking Christians whom they refer as infidels, and who empower the WEST to fight Muslims.

An eyewitness that stays across the street where the bombing took place, said the explosion violently shook her building around mid-morning when the church was fully packed for service.

 "Deacons were the first to run out of the church. Many of them had blood on their white robes," Later, the more seriously wounded started to be brought out, carried in the arms of survivors and ferried to hospitals in private cars, she said."

Coptic Egyptian Christians are one of the oldest Christian Communities in the middle east. The COPTS were largely supportive of the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and incurred the wrath the Islamists.

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