Sinai

The Islamic State affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has seized a weapons shipment that included a number of Kornet missiles, the Russian-made advanced anti-tank laser-guided weapon system.

IDF officers and Defense Ministry representatives met earlier this week with their counterparts in Egypt in an effort to halt disruptions to mobile phone services in southern Israel, a result of Egyptian jamming against ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Sinai.

Egypt’s military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 jihadists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Islamic State group jihadists.

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 is threatening to torpedo the presidential elections in Egypt that are scheduled to take place next month.

TEL AVIV – Israeli drones, jets, and helicopters have carried out a covert campaign with more than 100 airstrikes against Islamic State-affiliated terrorists in the Sinai over the past two years, when Egypt proved unable to deal with the jihadist threat inside its borders, the New York Times reported Saturday.

TEL AVIV — In an attempt to sway the opinions of young Islamist extremist Gazans, Hamas published a video the terrorist organization says shows that the Islamic State is cooperating with Israel to keep the Gaza Strip under siege.

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TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper on Sunday ran an article claiming that Israel and the U.S. were behind Friday’s terror attack in a mosque in northern Sinai in which 305 were killed.

TEL AVIV – Terrorism will win as long as the Arab world continues to ignore the hatred and anti-Semitism that is rife in their societies, Dr. Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian-born Muslim and former Islamist radical, said in the wake of the terror attack in Sinai.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “horrific and despicable terrorist attack” in Sinai and sent condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian people and the families of the 305 people killed in the attack.

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.

Three Palestinians went missing from a tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in mysterious circumstances on Monday, authorities in the Islamist Hamas-run territory said.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces are preventing the family members of Palestinian terrorists associated with the Islamic State who have been killed in Sinai from erecting tents of mourning where community members would go to offer their condolences, Abu Baker al-Maqdisi, a senior jihadist in Gaza, told Breitbart Jerusalem.

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.

A Palestinian militant linked to the Islamic State jihadist group in the Sinai Peninsula has reportedly been killed by an Israeli drone in retaliation for rocket fire launched from the Egyptian territory into Israel.

EL-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian officials say an attack on a checkpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula has killed six soldiers.

TEL AVIV — Hamas has suffered another embarrassment after three of its members purportedly successfully infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday and joined Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State, has threatened Hamas and Egyptian intelligence forces in an announcement issued Monday as Hamas officials met in Cairo with Egyptian leaders.

TEL AVIV — The incident in which a Hamas terrorist commander was killed Wednesday night in the border area between Egypt and Gaza was not a planned strike against Hamas members, a senior Palestinian jihadist in Gaza associated with Islamic State ideology claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.

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.

Islamic militants attacked a remote Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai Peninsula with a suicide car bomb and heavy machine gun fire on Friday, killing at least 23 soldiers in the deadliest attack in the turbulent region in two years.

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.

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TEL AVIV — Five Hamas members have joined the ranks of the Islamic State in Sinai over the past few days, a security source in the Gaza Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Hamas’ new charter, which is being sold as more moderate than its predecessor, proves that “Hamas was never an Islamic movement,” according to Egyptian jihadist Abu Abdullah Almuhajer, who is active in Sinai and the Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – Amid signs of a rapprochement between Egypt and Hamas, media personalities are calling for the Gaza-based terror group to destroy the cross-border tunnels used to smuggle arms, terrorists and funds in and out of Egypt.

The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint near the famed Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai late Tuesday which authorities said killed one policeman and wounded four.

The Islamic State affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula took responsibility for firing a rocket into southern Israel earlier on Monday.

Israel has closed its Taba border crossing to Egypt following a warning by its anti-terrorism office of an “imminent” militant attack there.

TEL AVIV – A months-long financial crisis impacting Hamas has led to calls from within the Islamic terrorist group to renew its relationship with Iran in hopes of securing future financing, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem

TEL AVIV – Fighting between Islamic State-affiliated militants and the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula has led to a 50% increase in trauma suffered by children in southern Israel who are hearing the sounds of explosions from across the border, the Hebrew news site Walla reported.

TEL AVIV – Hamas security forces have uncovered a rocket workshop run by a pro-Islamic State organization in Gaza, according to a jihadist in the coastal enclave.

Israeli jets bombed Islamic State targets in the Sinai Peninsula Thursday, killing several people, including two children, the jihadist group’s official news outlet claimed Saturday.

Reuters provides a sobering account of the danger facing Egyptian Christians, beginning with the plight of civil servant Adel Munir, who found himself Number Two on a list of Christians marked for death by the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV — Abu Baker Almaqdesi, a radical Islamist who returned to his native Gaza after fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, claimed in an interview that IS-linked groups in Gaza and the Sinai made a strategic decision to turn their arms against Israel.