TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces have stepped up their pursuit of Islamic State operatives and supporters as well as other Salafist jihadists in the Gaza Strip, even while a Hamas delegation is visiting in Egypt led by politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Gaza jihadist affiliated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos over the Telegram chat application of jihadists who took part in an attack against Egyptian army headquarters, where the terrorist organization says the military operation of the Egyptian army is run against Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State is threatening to torpedo the presidential elections in Egypt that are scheduled to take place next month.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula published photos of Wilyat Sinai, the jihadist organization’s Egyptian branch, burning large amounts of drug plants grown by the Sawarkeh tribe, many of whose members fill key roles in the terrorist organization.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces recently set out on a large-scale operation of arrests against Islamic State-aligned operatives, especially those belonging to the Salafist sect, in wake of a video clip released by Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.
TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State organization, has released a video in which it accuses Hamas of betraying Islam and fighting against jihadists in the Gaza Strip, escalating the ongoing propaganda war between the two terrorist groups.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces, together with Egyptian border troops, managed to prevent the infiltration of several Salafist jihadists from Gaza into Sinai early Tuesday morning, Abou Baker al-Maqdesi, a Gaza-based jihadist affiliated with Islamic State ideology, told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Egypt and the world are still trying to comprehend the massacre on Friday committed by terrorists in a mosque in Sinai, an attack in which more than 305 worshippers were reportedly killed and dozens more wounded.
TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Islamic State’s Egyptian branch, has continued its war against the Egyptian army in recent days with attacks that killed a number Egyptian soldiers and IS fighters.
TEL AVIV — Two former Hamas members who entered Sinai to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State have been killed during clashes with the Egyptian army, a senior jihadist has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State continues to present a challenge to the Egyptian army in battles between the two sides in Sinai, with the terrorist organization claiming to have captured a local spy working for the Egyptian security forces.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State terror organization has published what it claims are photos of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of IS, purporting to show how the murderous group is forcing sharia law over those who live in their areas of control in Sinai, despite the war being waged against them by the Egyptian army.
TEL AVIV — A Hamas delegation led by the movement’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, returned to the Gaza Strip last week after two weeks of discussions with the leadership of Egyptian intelligence.
TEL AVIV — Jihadist organizations affiliated with the Islamic State are refusing to give the Hamas terrorist group a rest in the Gaza Strip, as an informed Hamas source in the enclave told Breitbart Jerusalem that the Hamas movement’s security forces arrested six jihadists in the last two days who are residents of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the Strip.
TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces successfully foiled three attempts by jihadists to cross into Sinai from the Gaza Strip last week, a security source from the organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Hamas movement has continued its campaign of arrests in recent days against jihadists in the Gaza Strip that began after the death of a Hamas security officer in a suicide blast that occurred when he detained a Gazan jihadist who was trying to escape to Sinai to fight in the ranks of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.
TEL AVIV — Special intelligence forces of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have foiled an attempt by six Hamas militants to join Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, a Hamas security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Members of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of Islamic State, have been seeking to increase the recruitment of Gazan jihadists to join IS in Sinai, a senior jihadist in Gaza has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The defection of members of Hamas’ military wing to Wilyat Sinai, the Islamic State branch in Egypt, is continuing with six new individuals having crossed into Sinai, according to a senior jihadist in Gaza tied to IS ideology.
TEL AVIV — Hamas authorities arrested six members of the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a few days ago as they sought to infiltrate Sinai through the tunnels connecting Gaza to the Peninsula in order to join Islamic State fighters there, a Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Hamas security personnel in the Gaza Strip arrested dozens of Salafist activists in the immediate aftermath of an attack in Sinai of militants from Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, in which 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The Islamic State group has released photos over its Telegram account purporting to show the deadly attack in northern Sinai last Friday that killed 23 Egyptian soldiers.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is acting to infiltrate the ranks of the Islamic State group in Sinai, a senior jihadist associated with IS claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Hamas’ security forces have arrested a number of Bedouins who reside in the coastal enclave after they tried to enter the Egyptian Sinai to fight the Islamic State group there, a security source in the Gaza Strip has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
