Related Sisi says Egypt won't intervene militarily in Libya The governor of North Sinai has ruled out the possibility of displacing residents of the Egyptian governorate at any point in the futre as a measure to fight terrorism, in comments quoted on Saturday.

"It is us who will build this sacred spot and we shall die and live on it," Abdel-Fattah Harhour was quoted as saying by Al-Ahram's Arabic website.

"The state constructs and does not displace… we will not leave a single span of it."

The restive governorate has been a hotspot for militant violence over the past decade.

Harhour said that authorities are keen to lead a turnaround in the fortunes of North Sinai, widely seen as one of the most underdeveloped areas of the country.

He said the Egyptian cabinet has recently approved the establishment of a state university in Arish, the governorate's capital, although the decision has yet to be ratified by presidential decree.

In March last year, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi promised that the Sinai peninsula would be "fully developed" by the end of his first term in 2018.

El-Sisi said his government had set up a plan that included EGP 10 billion ($1.28 billion) worth of development projects in Sinai, and would take around a year and a half.

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