(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - There has been a steady and significant decline in terror attacks carried out by the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula in recent months, according to both Egyptian and Israeli sources. The Egyptian army has suffered a smaller number of casualties in 2016, and the attacks on it have been less ambitious than those IS carried out in 2014 and 2015. In May, as the result of precise intelligence, a large-scale aerial campaign killed nearly 100 IS operatives and injured hundreds more, dozens of them seriously. In addition, the bombings destroyed weapons storage facilities and ammunition caches which had been kept hidden for years.
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