Two rockets from Sinai explode in southern Israel - 20 February 2017

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Two rockets launched from the Sinai Peninsula exploded in southern Israel’s Eshkol Regional Council on Monday morning, the IDF reported.
No air raid sirens were activated in the area as the projectiles were headed toward open territory, a military source added. There were no reports of injury or damage in the incident.
Monday’s rocket attack came the day after Islamic State-linked media claimed that an unmanned Israeli drone had bombed and killed four members of ISIS in Egypt in the northern Sinai region.
According to the Islamic State linked Amaq agency, the four “fell as martyrs to the Jewish enemy” in a strike which targeted a car carrying the militants in the village of Shibana located south of the town Rafah.
Earlier this month the group claimed responsibility for a rocket barrage fired from the Sinai towards Israel’s Red Sea resort of city of Eilat. The Iron Dome missile system intercepted three projectiles while a fourth landed in open territory. There were no casualties but at least four people were treated for anxiety.
The group said the attack was launched “in order to teach the Jews and the crusaders a proxy war will not avail them of anything,” and threatened future “calamitous” attacks.
Israel has not retaliated against the rockets .
Israel has a 240-kilometer border with the Sinai and since Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi rise to power, Cairo and Jerusalem have been closely cooperating in the Sinai peninsula in the fight against ISIS militants. According to a infographic released by ISIS, the jihadist group operates in Arish, Bir Abd and Sheikh Zuweidin the Sinai Peninsula.  
While Israel is not the terror group’s principal target, and incidents along the Israel-Egypt border are rare, there have been several attacks, some deadly, in recent years.

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