Jabal al-Halāl (Arabic:جبل الحلال) is a mountain in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt.
According to Ibrahim Hammad, the Bedouin chief of Bir al-Abed, "This mountain is like a ghost area.
[2] It is thought by some, including Claude Scudamore Jarvis, to be the biblical Mount Sinai.
In 2012, the Egyptian Armed Forces launched "Operation Eagle" in another attempt to root out militants hiding on the mountain after the August 2012 Sinai attack.
[5][6] In March/April 2017, the Egyptian Armed Forces conducted a third security operation named 'Torrent 5' in which they claimed to have cleared the mountain of terrorist hideouts.