Minutes before iftar, Mamdouh A. (45) and his neighbour Sayed A. (63) were fatally shot during Ramadan following the renewal of a blood feud between two families in a village in the Deshna district of Qena governorate in southern Egypt.

In a separate incident in the Nile Delta, Hosni Atta Allah (41) was fatally stabbed by a friend following a dispute between them, hours before iftar in a village in the Tanta district of Gharbia governorate, according to local media.

Bloodshed in Egypt’s streets took a tragic turn on the first day of Ramadan when a young man killed his father, Ezzat Sh., and burned his body following a dispute between them in the city of Senbellawein in Dakahlia governorate in northern Egypt.

Many murder cases in Egypt involve relatives, siblings, spouses and friends, while police records are filled with shocking family crimes that signal rising social tensions and increasing levels of violence amid harsh social and economic transformations that provide a fertile environment for such acts.

Many murder cases in Egypt involve relatives, siblings, spouses and friends, while police records are filled with shocking family crimes that signal rising social tensions and increasing levels of violence amid harsh social and economic transformations that provide a fertile environment for such acts.

Financial and family disputes Amid the deteriorating economic situation in the country, the collapse of the local currency (around 53 pounds to the dollar), soaring prices, and rising rates of inflation, poverty and unemployment, financial disputes lie behind many murder cases in Egypt.

Inflation stood at 11.5 percent in February, while poverty has reached record levels, with around 60 percent of Egyptians living in poverty, according to World Bank estimates. The unemployment rate reached 6.2 percent by the end of 2025, according to official data.

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The family of seven-year-old Ibrahim Ali never imagined they would find their child slaughtered and dumped inside a sack in a desert area in the city of 10th of Ramadan in Sharqia governorate in the Nile Delta, and that the perpetrator, a relative, had abducted and killed him days earlier to demand a ransom from the family.

Fatima Khalil, known in Egypt’s media as the “Port Said Bride”, was........

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