[IsraelTimes] Terror group says cell targeted Saturday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula; no immediate comment from IDF.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....
’s official media outlet claimed Sunday five of its members were killed in an Israeli military
According to Amaq news agency, an official media arm of the terror group, an Israeli dronezap struck a car with five Islamic State members in a village in the northern Sinai near the Egypt-Israel border on Saturday.
The strike occurred near the village of Shabana, south of the town of Rafah, Amaq said.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to The Times of Israel’s request for comment, but generally refrains from confirming or denying strikes outside of Israel.
The reported attack came after tensions between Israel and the Islamic State’s affiliate in Sinai ratcheted up earlier this month.
On February 8, the group, known as the Sinai Province, shot four rockets at the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Three of the four rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile system, the army said. A military spokesperson said the fourth rocket was not shot down by the missile defense battery as it was headed toward an open field.
Sinai Province claimed the rocket attack on Eilat early the next day.
February 9 also saw two Paleostinians killed in a mysterious kaboom in Rafah, which the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group claimed was the result of an Israeli
Israel denied it had carried out any
Last month, Israel ordered all of its citizens in the Sinai Peninsula to leave immediately due to security threats.