— Assessing risk and current presence of Islamic State cells in the West Bank

— Assessing risk and current presence of Islamic State cells in the West Bank. ️The Islamic State conducted numerous attacks targeting Israeli forces from in and out Palestine including Gaza, Sinai, Bir Sabe’, Hadera, West Bank camps, towns & cities. A lot of the attacks coming from Sinai were rockets targeting the port city of Umm Rashrash (Eilat) in southern occupied Palestine and Eshkol near the Gaza strip, there were many deadly ambushes against Israeli soldiers on the border with Sinai as well. Egyptian President Sisi confirmed that he was cooperating with Israel to fight IS in Sinai, a many times killing civilians, Iraeli warplanes and drones were involved in the fight as well. Islamic State fighters (pictured above pledging allegiance before the attack) also infiltrated urban Jewish settlements like the city of Hadera in 2022, north of Tel Aviv, and killed 2 IDF soldiers and injured 6 other Israelis, in another incident 6 years ago the Islamic State fired at IDF forces fr... Source: Sahelian Analyst [BACK]