‘ISIS BRANCH IN EGYPT’S SINAI PLANNING BIG OPERATION IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL’:

The ISIS affiliate in Egypt's Sinai peninsula plans to carry out a "big operation" in southern Israel, which will include an attack on the resort city of Eilat, a source close to the group warned. Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafistmovement senior official in the Gaza Strip, said that Israel and the USA are among the ISIS group’s chief targets. "The Islamic State [ISIS] educates its people that Israel and the United States are the leaders of the infidels and we believe that Israel should be done away with," Ansari said. He vowed that "it is only a question of time when there will be a big operation in Eilat and in the south of Israel." Col. Yehuda Cohen, the commander of the IDF’s Sagi Brigade operating on the border with Egypt, acknowledged in Sep. 2015 that ISIS in Egypt would at any moment attempt to carry out a terrorist attack against Israel. I believe that it will happen during my tenure,” he warned in an interview with Army Radio. "I teach my people to expect it to come tomorrow, to always be ready for it. When it happens, my doctrine is that we must strike a very strong blow at the same point and ensure that there are zero successful actions for the enemy,” he said. (J.Post) "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn.” Isa 54:17