ISIS Claims Responsibility for Rocket Attack on Southern Israel

[TomSea]

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Rocket Attack on Southern Israel

 by TheTower.org Staff | 04.10.17 2:05 pm

The Islamic State’s branch in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a southern Israeli community on Monday, shortly before the beginning of the Passover holiday.

“The fighters of the Islamic State have bombed the Jewish settlement in southern Palestine with a Grad rocket,” Sinai Province declared in a statement. The rocket landed on a greenhouse in Yuval, a town in Israel’s southern Eshkol region that borders Egypt and the Gaza Strip. While no one was injured, a 50-year-old man was treated for an anxiety attack.

Sinai Province, which has an estimated 800 to 1,000 members, also claimed responsibility for firing four rockets at the Israeli resort city of Eilat in February, ominously warning, “The future will be more calamitous with Allah’s permission.”

Continued: http://www.thetower.org/4845oc-isis-claims-responsibility-for-rocket-attack-on-southern-israel/

BM-21 Grad
The BM-21 launch vehicle, (Grad) a Soviet truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher, and a M-21OF rocket were developed in the early 1960s. BM stands for boyevaya mashina (combat vehicle), and the nickname grad means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated as the M-21 Field Rocket System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-21_Grad

I hope they can trace down how they got this; I assume the missile is not necessarily this BM-21 or other(?).

[geronl]

Israel sounds okay with ISIS or Al Qaeda taking over Syria, they should expect more of this