Ex military chief says IDF ‘was asked’ to carry out ‘broad attack’ against IS in 2015

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot reveals that the Israeli military was asked by a third party to carry out operational attacks against the Islamic State in 2015.

Speaking at the INSS conference, Eisenkot — a current MK with the National Unity party — says that “ISIS knows best how much the IDF operated in the Middle East — they paid a price of hundreds of killed and injured.”

Eisenkot says that “during 2015, there was an event in a certain place where we were asked to carry out an attack.” The IDF carried out “a relatively broad attack and harmed a great number of ISIS fighters.”

The former IDF chief does not elaborate on who made such a request and where the activity took place, although he says the IDF operated against the terror group “in many more than one country.” He adds that some of the IDF activity “went under the radar” at the time.

“There are not many countries in the world who know how to locate targets the size of a podium and get a missile on a target within a 1,000-kilometer radius around Israel,” Eisenkot adds. “Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it.”