IS says it fired rockets into Israel

16 October 2017, 1:57 pm

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The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel.

The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said.

A rocket that was fired from the Sinai Peninsula and landed in an open field in the Eshkol region on October 15, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

The jihadist group claimed responsibility in a statement on its Amaq propaganda agency, saying the attack “targeted a Jewish community (Eshkol) with two Grad missiles.”

IS-affiliated jihadists in the Sinai have been fighting an intense insurgency against Egyptian forces, with hundreds of troops and policemen killed since the army ousted Egypt’s elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

— AFP