Attacks attributed to the Jihadist group made six Israeli dead in recent days, unprecedented attacks since 2017.
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By hitting the country twice in less than a week, the Islamic State Organization (EI) has resurded brutally in the daily lives of Israelis. Two border police officers died on the night of Sunday 27th to Monday, March 28 in the coastal town of Hadera and twelve other people were injured.
The two attackers, Israeli Arabs identified by security services as sympathizers of the Islamic State Organization, were killed. Both had claimed their attack on behalf of the Jihadist group by lending allegiance to the new head of the organization, according to a short video broadcast on social networks.
This is the first time that the EI has been advocating an attack on the Israeli territory since 2017. The images of Hadera’s surveillance cameras, a city between Tel Aviv and Haifa, show the two men opening fire in Full street.
Five arrests
The Israeli police, who has invested several homes during the night in the city from where the attackers are originating, UMM al-Fahm, has announced having discovered arms and propaganda material related to the EI. Five people were arrested.
But after the attacks of these last days, the interior information services, the Shin Bet in particular, are criticized for not taking the threat of the EI seriously. The Hadera attack comes after the one in the south of the country in Beersheba on March 22. The assailant, who killed four people with a knife and car Aries, was also identified as a sympathizer of the EI. He had been sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning to go to Syria to join the group.
“A second attack by EI supporters inside Israel requires security forces to adapt to the new threat,” said the Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett on Monday, calling “citizens to continue to be vigilant “.
In this febrile climate, voices go up right, to denounce the supposed lax of the police, and call the Israelis to “release their weapons of safes”. At the risk of reviving the tensions between communities, less than a year after the 20021 spring crisis, which had seen Israeli Jewish and Arab rioters compete in several cities.
Monday, the military authorities have strengthened their scheme in the West Bank, fearing a contagion effect. Several Palestinian villages on both sides of the green line suffered on Sunday night to Monday suspected attacks to be retaliatory. In some so-called mixed communities, where the Israeli Jewish and Arab citizens live, or in the Negev, self-defense brigades are created, following the example of the settlers of the West Bank.
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