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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Wilayat Sinai

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)
May 1, 2022, 1:47 pm
Islamic State accuses Israel of slaying jihadist leader in Sinai airstrike
Terror group says Abu Omar al-Ansari killed as Egyptian army launches new campaign in northern part of desert, with Israeli air support
By Emanuel Fabian
A relative of a slain Christian grieves during funeral service at Church of Great Martyr Prince Tadros, in Minya, Egypt on Nov. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
November 3, 2018, 2:01 pm
Christians in Egypt bury their dead after jihadist attack
Local Islamic State affiliate claims its gunmen killed 7 Coptic pilgrims in ambush attack near Cairo
By Samy Magdy and Hamza Hendawi
Illustrative: A picture taken on November 28, 2017, from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing following an explosion close to the border on the Egyptian side of the divided city. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
July 27, 2018, 8:25 am
Egypt is winning battle against Islamic State in Sinai — but only temporarily
Local branch of terror group suffers major losses after sweeping campaign, but Peninsula’s beaches remain dangerous — and situation could explode when army reduces its presence
By Avi Issacharoff
Screenshot from a video produced by the Islamic State's Sinai Peninsula branch in which the terror group declares war on Hamas and executes one of its own members for smuggling weapons to the Palestinian group. The video was released January 3, 2017. (Screenshot)
January 4, 2018, 6:17 pm
Islamic State in Sinai declares war on Hamas in gruesome execution video
IS member accused of smuggling weapons to Gaza rulers is shot in back of head as tensions between rival terror groups erupt; Hamas dismisses clip as ‘Zionist production’
By Dov Lieber
An ultra orthodox Jewish man studies Torah, as he shops for vegetables at a supermarket in Gush Etzion, on July 27, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
December 26, 2017, 1:00 pm
Saturday’s all right for fighting (but not shopping)
Papers report that with a law shutting mini-markets looming, cities are rebelling, though it’s not clear they can stop the ultra-Orthodox effort
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative: Egyptian army conscripts stand guard outside the Suez Canal University hospital in the eastern port city of Ismailia on November 25, 2017, where the victims of a bomb and gun assault on the North Sinai Rawda mosque a day earlier. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
November 26, 2017, 1:50 am
After mosque bloodbath, Egypt flexes muscles again, but it may not be enough
Critics say Cairo’s use of overwhelming force against Islamists has failed to stanch Sinai insurgency, and other tactics should be deployed
By Hamza Hendawi
Illustrative: An Islamic State affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula holds Egyptian Coptic Christians hostage. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 23, 2017, 5:01 pm
3 Gazans said briefly kidnapped by gunmen from Sinai
Hamas-run interior ministry confirms laborers went missing on Egyptian border, but were returned ‘safely’ hours later
By Dov Lieber
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )
April 10, 2017, 6:27 pm
IDF chief: Terrorists are out to ruin Passover
Gadi Eisenkot warns of jihadists’ threat from Egypt, hours after unprecedented border closure and IS-claimed rocket attack on Negev
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
The remains of a rocket fired from Sinai that struck an Israeli greenhouse in the village of Yuval in the Eshkol region on April 10, 2017. (Israel Police)
April 10, 2017, 4:24 pm
Islamic State in Sinai claims Passover-eve rocket attack on Israel
Jihadi group’s Egyptian affiliate says it fired missile that hit Negev greenhouse; Israel ramps up warnings of terror attack from the peninsula
By Judah Ari Gross
Screen capture from a video released by an Islamic State group affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula and threatening Egypt's Christian Coptic community, February 20, 2017. (screencapture: Twitter)
February 20, 2017, 5:56 pm
Islamic State vows more attacks on Egypt’s Christians
In video, affiliate group threatens ‘infidel’ Coptic community, shows footage of terrorist who killed nearly 30 at Cairo church
By AP
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