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Drone strike in southern Sinai said to kill one person
 [IsraelTimes] Raid comes hours after IS affiliate fires rocket into Negev; Israel on alert amid warnings of terror attacks from peninsula.A dronezap in Egypt’s southern Sinai region killed one person on Monday, according to reports in Arabic-language media. The strike was on a home in the town of Rafah, which borders the Gazoo Strip, al-Jazeera reported. The network attributed the strike to Israel, but there was no confirmation of this. The Egyptian military was reported to have carried out a number of air strikes in the terror-ridden peninsula on Monday. The reported strike came hours after a rocket attack from Sinai was fired into southern Israel earlier on Monday, an attack claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... affiliate in Sinai.. On its official Twitter account, the terror group said "the fighters of the Islamic State have bombed a Jewish settlement in southern Paleostine with a Grad rocket." Just after 11:30 a.m. on Monday morning, the incoming missile alarm known as a "Code Red" sounded in the Negev’s Eshkol region, near Israel’s westernmost edge, at the border with Egypt and the Gazoo Strip. After a search of the area, police found the rocket in the community of Yuval, near the Egyptian border, in a greenhouse where tomatoes were being grown. The greenhouse was lightly damaged by the rocket. The attack came hours after Israel shut down the Taba Crossing into the Sinai Peninsula, citing information about an imminent terror attack in the area. On Monday morning, in a highly unusual move, the Transportation Ministry shut down the Taba Crossing into the Sinai Peninsula. It is expected to reopen next Tuesday, April 18, with the end of the Passover holiday, but that decision will only be made following a security assessment, the ministry said in a statement. Israelis currently in the Sinai Peninsula will still be able to return from Egypt and are, in fact, encouraged to do so immediately, the ministry said. Thousands of Israelis had been expected to cross into the Sinai Peninsula for the Passover holiday. The decision to forbid that move came a day after two lethal attacks on Egyptian churches by the terrorist group’s so-called Sinai Province. The closure was ordered by Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, after consultation with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and other security officials, according to the ministry’s statement. This was one of the few times the Taba Crossing was shut down since its opening in 1982, following the Israeli-Egyptian peace deal. The crossing was shut down in 2014, following a terror attack on the Egyptian side of the border. It was also closed in 2011 when Israel also assessed there was a high risk of terror attacks. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-11 |
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