{"id":105048,"date":"2023-06-12T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105048"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:22:00","slug":"19-05-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105048","title":{"rendered":"Former IDF Chief of Staff reveals: Israel attacked ISIS in 2015, killing hundreds of terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jpost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-745977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former IDF Chief of Staff reveals: Israel attacked ISIS in 2015, killing hundreds of terrorists<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> MAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>During his speech, he revealed that Israel attacked the terrorist organization ISIS in 2015 and killed hundreds of members of the group.<\/strong><br \/>\n.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/515496\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>GADI EISENKOT waves at the launch of the National Unity Party election campaign, in Tel Aviv, earlier this month. \/ (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG\/FLASH90)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-elections\/article-720188\">Former IDF Chief of Staff, Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot<\/a>, spoke on Sunday at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), where he revealed that Israel had attacked the terrorist organization ISIS in 2015 and killed hundreds of members of the terror group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;ISIS knows best how much the IDF operated in the Middle East &#8211; they paid the price of hundreds of casualties and injured. In 2015, there was an event in a specific location where we were asked to carry out an attack. We conducted a very extensive attack and hit many ISIS operatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;The&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-739411\">campaign against ISIS<\/a>&nbsp;was intensive and far beyond that of any other country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;With results that in some places surpassed all imagination regarding the type of operations and attacks carried out. Some of the actions went under the radar.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"blockquote_cite_ea273189-b8de-c8fb-3ed5-b7fff56efec1\" class=\"blockquote_cite center\"><p><b>&#8220;ISIS knows best how much the IDF operated in the Middle East &#8211; they paid the price of hundreds of casualties and injured.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><cite>Former IDF Chief of Staff, Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/534013\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>An ISIS member carries and Islamic State flag in Syria. (credit: NDLA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;There aren&#8217;t many countries in the world that know how to identify targets the size of a postage stamp and insert a missile into a target within a radius of one thousand kilometers around Israel,&#8221; explained Eisenkot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it. Those who know best how much the IDF operated throughout the&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-741684\">Middle East are the ISIS&nbsp;<\/a>operatives because they paid the price of the hundreds of casualties, injuries and damages and they knew who knew how to carry out these operations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Israel is ISIS&#8217;s biggest threat &#8211; and they know it<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Towards the end of 2015, a&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/isis-threat\/the-only-country-isis-fears-in-the-middle-east-is-israel-438576\">German journalist spent 10 days with Islamic State<\/a>&nbsp;and said that the radical jihadist group that has captured vast territories of Syria and Iraq was deterred by only one Middle Eastern country &#8211; Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In an interview with the British Jewish News, Jurgen Todenhofer reflected on his brief time with the group, during which he engaged in conversations with ISIS fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-row\">\n<div class=\"margin-container-body-text\">\n<div id=\"startBannerSticky\" class=\"article-inner-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to Todenhofer, ISIS expressed a distinct fear of Israel and the strength of the Israeli army. He conveyed the militants&#8217; belief that the Israeli forces were too formidable for them to contend with. In contrast, ISIS aimed to lure British and American troops into Syria and Iraq, areas where they believed they held an advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISIS still tried to attack Israel<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In August 2022, it was<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-714761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;revealed that the Shin Bet<\/a>&nbsp;(Israel Security Agency) arrested two ISIS-affiliated Arab-Israelis from Umm el-Fahm in July on suspicion that they intended to carry out terrorist activity for the organization, an agency representative said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mahmad Farouk al-Gabariya and Wabed al-Mahadi Masoud, both 21, were under the supervision of security forces because of their extreme jihad ideology. Masoud was known to the Shin Bet for previous activity on behalf of ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The interrogation of the suspects revealed that they had been making plans to leave Israel to fight for ISIS and had conferred with an Israeli citizen who had come back from fighting for al-Qaeda in Africa on how best to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Shin Bet then later said that an indictment was filed against the two suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-713596\">Shin Bet<\/a>&nbsp;has made multiple arrests of ISIS-affiliated suspects in the past. Another suspect was arrested in July and in his interrogation, he admitted to identifying with ISIS and preparing to fight with the organizations against Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In March 2022, a wave of terrorist attacks broke out throughout Israel. Two of the attacks, one in&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-702009\">Beersheba<\/a>&nbsp;and one in&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-702476\">Hadera<\/a>&nbsp;were carried out by terrorists who identified with ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IDF Chief of Staff reveals: Israel attacked ISIS in 2015, killing hundreds of terrorists MAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF During his speech, he revealed that Israel attacked the terrorist organization ISIS in 2015 and killed hundreds of members of the group. . 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