TEL AVIV — Eleven jihadist residents of the Gaza Strip who swore allegiance to the Islamic State organization succeeded last weekend in joining Wilayat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a senior jihadist source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Wilayat Sinai, Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, has been using sniper rifles that were intended to reach Hamas in the Gaza Strip but were captured in Sinai, a senior Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Islamic State organization’s Egyptian affiliate has circulated photos of its new CPR course.
Hamas on Wednesday raised its readiness level in the wake of four rockets fired on Israel from the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, as well as claims that the Israel Air Force struck a cross-border tunnel between Egypt and Gaza, killing two.
Wednesday’s rocket fire at the Israeli resort city of Eilat was “a natural reaction” to Israel’s alleged involvement with the Egyptian army’s clampdown on Sinai militants, Abu Baker Almaqdesi, a Gaza-based jihadist who fought for the Islamic State, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
Israel is bracing for an Islamic State (Isil) terror attack along its southern border with Egypt within the next six months, a senior Israeli military officer has warned.
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Lebanese authorities arrested two Beirut airport employees on suspicion of aiding and abetting “terrorist parties,” security sources confirmed to Reuters on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt, Wilayat Sinai, released a video (see above) showing militants training for the organization’s ongoing battle against the Egyptian army.
TEL AVIV – A news agency known for its close ties to the Islamic State claimed that Israeli aircraft on Tuesday struck outposts of Wilayat Sinai, the IS’s branch in the Egyptian Sinai. With no documentary evidence to back up its claim, the Amaq News Agency reported that seven “Israeli drones, war-planes and helicopters” bombed targets in the IS-heavy north-eastern Sinai
According to U.S. officials, satellite imagery shows a heat flash immediately before a Russian plane crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This evidence could disprove the theory the plane was shot down by a missile.
