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Israel Attacked Islamic State in "More than One Country"
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot told the Institute for National Security Studies on Sunday that "Islamic State knows best how much the IDF operated in the Middle East: They paid a price of hundreds of killed and injured." "During 2015, there was an event in a certain place where we were asked to carry out an attack." The IDF carried out "a relatively broad attack and harmed a great number of ISIS fighters." He said the IDF operated against ISIS "in many more than one country" and that some of the IDF activity "went under the radar" at the time. "There are not many countries in the world who know how to locate targets the size of a podium and get a missile on a target within a 1,000-km. radius around Israel," Eisenkot said. "Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it." In 2018, it was reported that Israeli aircraft carried out more than 100 airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists in Sinai over a two-year period.