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| | + | Hezbollah welcomed the Umm El Fahm Arabs' [[ISIS]]<ref>Elliot Gotkine, [https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/middleeast/israel-isis-attack-intl/index.html ISIS attack kills two and injures six in Israel], ''CNN'', March 28, 2022. |
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| | + | (CNN) ISIS operatives killed two people and injured six in a shooting attack Sunday in the Israeli city of Hadera, some 31 miles north of Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said. |
| | + | The attack — the second of its kind in a week — coincided with a landmark regional summit in Israel's Negev desert, where top diplomats from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Israel and the United States are meeting to discuss security issues. |
| | + | "We condemn today's terrorist attack in Hadera, Israel," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted on Sunday from Israel. "Such senseless acts of violence and murder have no place in society. We stand with our Israeli partners and send our condolences to the families of the victims."</blockquote></ref><ref>roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) Tweeted: ([https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1508225829339344897 March 27, 2022]):<blockquote> |
| | + | ISIS also issued an official proclamation accepting responsibility for the attack in Hadera: "The "infidel" Jews must know that the promises (to harm them) will come to them sooner or later. With the help of Allah."</blockquote></ref> attack in Hadera Mar 27, 2022. <ref>roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס @kaisos1987 Tweeted [https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1508225829339344897 Mar 28, 2022]):<blockquote>Hezbollah welcomes the attack in Hadera yesterday. A statement from the organization said that the attack underscores the desire of the Palestinian people to fight ...and that it is a practical response to the normalization meetings held by some Arab regimes with the enemy entity.</blockquote></ref>, as well as its Iran bosses supported it.<ref>Seth J. Frantznam, [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-702502 Hezbollah praises Hadera terrorist attack as ‘response’ to Negev Summit - analysis], ''JPost'', March 28, 2022. |
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| | + | The statement called this a heroic “confrontation” with Israel. The article noted that the perpetrators were from Umm el-Fahm, a large Arab-Israeli city. |
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| − | Hezbollah welcomed the Umm El Fahm Arabs' [[ISIS]] attack in Hadera Mar 27, 2022. <ref>roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס @kaisos1987 Tweeted [https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1508225829339344897 Mar 28, 2022]):<blockquote>Hezbollah welcomes the attack in Hadera yesterday. A statement from the organization said that the attack underscores the desire of the Palestinian people to fight ...and that it is a practical response to the normalization meetings held by some Arab regimes with the enemy entity.</blockquote></ref>
| + | Iran’s Fars News Agency also highlighted the attack. Fars is considered close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC and Iran generally back Hezbollah. The statement at Fars called this a “martyrdom operation” and said Hezbollah had congratulated the perpetrators... |
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| | + | The context here is that the operation appears to be linked to ISIS, which is a jihadist group that generally is opposed to Shi’ites and Iran. That means that in this case, even though the perpetrators are apparently Islamist extremists, pro-Iranian groups nevertheless back the attack... |
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| | + | Iran backs Hamas, which is a Sunni group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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| | + | This complexity of Sunni, Shi’ite, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and other countries sometimes being against each other, and sometimes on the same side, is one of the features of the region. In general, ISIS has not targeted Israel in recent years, and jihadist groups have focused their energies elsewhere. But Iranian-backed groups have focused their energies on fighting Israel.</blockquote></ref> |
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