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8/4/2019 Terror in the South - August 2011- Eng
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The South Under Terror Attack
Operations Room
The Sinai Peninsula Terror Training Ground
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About 20 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in the past day
August 19th 2011
Yesterday, a series of coordinated terrorattacksonIsraelicivilianvehicles, tookplaceat approximately 12:00 PM along the Israeli
EgyptianBorder,some10KilometersNorthofthe Southern city of Eilat, when gunfire wasopened on an Israeli bus. 14 people wereinjuredintheoneinstanceandwereevacuatedto nearby hospitals. Almost simultaneously,an additional bus and two civilian vehicleswerefiredonbyanotherterroristgroup.Thecombinedattacks left over40people injured
and8dead.READ MORE
The scene of the attack - Watch the Video
MostrocketsfellinopenareasintheAshdod,Ash-
kelon, Be'er Sheva andKiryat Gat regions. Two
rockets hit populated areas inAshdod and sev-
enpeoplewerewounded,includingonecritically.
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A review of the massive smuggling of military
arsenalintotheSinai.READ MORE
10PalestiniansattemptedtoinfiltrateIsraelfrom
Sinai last year - The terrorists who committed
the attacks near Eilat on Thursday (August 18)
originatedfromtheGazaStripandinfiltratedinto
IsraelfromtheSinaiPeninsula.READ MORE
IDFsoldierkilledasaresultofterrorattack-Staff
Sgt.MosheNaftalywaskilledwhiletryingtocome
totheassistanceofacivilianunderattack.READ
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The South Under Terror Attack
August 19th 2011
The Sinai Peninsula Terror Training Ground
Israels southern border with Egypt has been
considereduntiltheAugust18thdeadlyevents,as
aquietfrontier,hardlycoveredbythemedia.On
August18ththischangedandthisborderbecame
thenewfocusonthewaragainstterrorismaswellas a focal point to guarantee the security of the
StateofIsraelanditscitizens.
Since the fall of the Mubarak Regime in Egypt
andtheemergenceofaleadershipthatquestions
EgyptsforeignpolicytowardsIsrael,avacuumhas
evolvedintheSinaiPeninsula,allowingforterror
activityinthatregion.Inshort,theSinaiPeninsula
isbecomingaTerrorIncubator.ThoughthemanyIsraelitouristsvisitingSinaidescribetheregionasTheEgyptianGarden
ofEden,thereexistsaconstantundercurrentorterroractivitywhichprimarilyinvolvesthe
smugglingintotheregionofmilitaryhardwaredirectedbyextremeIslamicgroups.LedbyAl
Qaeda,theseseektofillthevacuumcreatedbythepartialwithdrawalofpolicingforcesthat
weredeployedthere.
The military contraband finds its way to Sinai
travelingthroughArabcountries,directedbyIran
withitsvestedinterestinapplyingitsinfluenceon
PalestinianTerrorgroups.Theprincipalsmuggling
routesoriginateinIran,throughSudan,ontoEgypt
andintotheSinai.
TherehavebeenrecentreportsintheArabmedia
of the uncovering of military hardware caches
particularly in the northern Sinai coastal area of
El Arish. The Palestinian News agency MAAN
reportedonAugust29th2010ontheuncoveringof
amassivecacheofmilitaryarsenalbytheEgyptian
securityforces.Thereportrelatedto110antiaircraft
missilesandhundredsofkilogramsofexplosives.Anotherreportrelatedtoninecaches
uncoveredinthenorthandcentralregionsoftheSinai,aswellasinthecitiesofRafahand
ElArish,whichincludedavarietyofarsenalsuchasmachineguns,ammunition,missiles,
anti-tankminesand100KGofTNT.
ParalleltothisactivitywithinthePeninsula,thesmugglingofhardwareintotheGazaStripcontinuesinfullforce.TheIsraelSecurityServicesreportinMay2011,thatsincethebeginning
of2010,theSinai-Gazasmugglingaxishasseenhundredsofconventionalrockets(mostly
coveringrangesof20and40KM),aboutonethousandRocketPropelledGrenades,dozens
ofAntiTankweapons,tonsofexplosivesaswellastonsofrawmaterialsforthemanufacture
ofexplosives.
ThereportclarifiesthattheweaponstrafficinSinaiistheprincipalsourceofincomeofBedouin
TribesresidingintheSinai.TheseBedouintakepossessionofthecontrabandontheSudan
EgyptfrontierandmoveitthroughEgypt,intotheSinaiandfinallytotheGazaborder.SoastoguaranteeIsraelssecurity,theIDFoperatesincollaborationwiththeEgyptianArmed
Forcestocurtailfurtherterrorevents.Furthermore,IDFmilitaryengineersconstantlyworkto
uncoveranddestroythetunnelswhichformanintegralpartofthesmugglingoperation.