Islamic Jihad Planning Attack on Israel

Stand for Israel  |  April 1, 2019

Palestine Israel Conflict
Palestinian masked members of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad group, march with their weapons to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement's newly elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally along the streets of Gaza, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

While Hamas seems to have stopped its recent spate of rocket attacks on Israel, that doesn’t mean that other terrorists don’t intend to attack the Holy Land. The Jerusalem Post’s Anna Ahronheim reports that Gaza’s other major terror organization is planning a large attack because of the ceasefire:

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group is preparing a “significant” terrorist attack to undermine the ceasefire arrangement between Israel and Hamas, Yediot Aharonot reported on Monday.

According to the report, security forces deployed along the Gaza security fence have noticed “unusual” activity by the group’s military wing, leading security officials to believe that the group might be planning a rocket barrage or breaching of the security fence in the coming hours or days…

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, has been assessed by military intelligence as a factor increasing the risk of an escalation in the blockaded coastal enclave, since it is not under the direct control of Hamas and acts independently for its own interests.

The group is believed to be behind the last rocket barrage towards Israel on Saturday night when five rockets were fired toward southern Israeli communities after a relatively non-violent day when some 40,000 Palestinians rioted along the security fence marking Land Day and the first anniversary of the “Great Return” marches.

PIJ is responsible for several violent attacks on IDF troops during the marches, including the first death of a soldier along the Gaza border since Operation Protective Edge in 2014…

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