Former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot revealed this evening (Sunday), in an appearance at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), that in 2015 Israel carried out a large-scale attack against ISIS.
Eisenkot, currently an MK in the state camp, did not specify which event this was, but said it was a very broad attack and that a great many ISIS fighters were injured.
""The campaign against ISIS was intense and in much more than one country - with results that in some places surpass all imagination in the type of operations and attacks carried out. Some of the operations went under the radar. The army was involved in this campaign - intelligence, air force, special units, foreign relations," he said.
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He added: "The ISIS phenomenon takes a turn for us in 2015, when there is an event in a certain place during which we are asked to carry out an attack, carry out a relatively very broad attack and harm a great many ISIS members.".
""There aren't many countries in the world that know how to locate targets the size of a podium and insert a missile into the target within a radius of 1,000 kilometers around Israel. Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it. Those who know best how much the IDF operated throughout the Middle East - are the people of ISIS, because they paid the price of hundreds of dead and wounded and casualties - and they knew who knew how to carry out these operations.".
In 2018, The New York Times reported on close security cooperation between Israel and Egypt, during which the IDF attacked about a hundred ISIS targets in Sinai. According to the report, all Israeli attacks were approved by the Egyptians and carried out with close intelligence cooperation between the countries.
The report revealed that Israeli military aid to Egypt began immediately after the downing of the Russian plane by the terrorist organization in 2015.
