Thursday, January 4, 2018

Islamic State Declares War On Hamas In Gaza

An image from a video released by the Islamic State's affiliate in the northern Sinai, distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group.

Washington Post: Islamic State declares war on rival Hamas with video execution

JERUSALEM — The extremist Islamic State group’s branch in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has taken a simmering dispute with the Palestinian Hamas group based in nearby Gaza to new levels, releasing a 22-minute video in which it calls on its followers to attack the group and shows the execution of a man it said was a collaborator.

Analysts say the escalation has the potential to destabilize an already fragile security situation in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave that Hamas has controlled for the past decade.

“Never surrender to them. Use explosives, silenced pistols, and sticky bombs. Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are the pillars of tyranny that prop up its throne,” says the knife-wielding narrator of the video, according to a translation distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist websites.

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WNU Editor: I am willing to bet that there are many in Gaza who are not happy that Hamas is not confronting Israel as it has in the past, and are sympathetic to the Islamic States' call for more war against Israel

More News On Islamic State In Sinai Declaring War Against Hamas

Gaza's Next War: ISIS Vows To Overthrow Radical Rival Hamas For Failing To Stop Trump -- Newsweek
Islamic State in Sinai declares war on Hamas in gruesome execution video -- The Times of Israel
Islamic State's faction in Egypt declares war to Hamas in video -- i24NEWS

5 comments:

fazman said...

I've always wondered why no Paris style Isis attacks in Israel?

Hans Persson said...

Because of strict border control and high security, faz.

Unknown said...

Gaza looks like a potential TIF district.

"The crossing was managed by the Israel Airports Authority until Israel evacuated Gaza on 11 September 2005 as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. It subsequently became the task of the European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah (EUBAM) to monitor the crossin"

- wiki

So Gazans could trade or they could shoot missile at Israel. They choose mostly the latter.

Hans Persson said...

Jay, brutality? Give me a break. You need to do some reading on Israel, and dont come here postning your wierd "sources" from sites noone heard about because nobody clicks on them.

fazman said...

I'm sure border settlements have long been within their grasp and capabilities, it is the will that is or. was missing.
I feel that its more likely that they simply aren't stupid enough to throw stones at a hornets nest, that may be changing.