‘Israel conducted over 100 airstrikes in Egypt's Sinai’

Israel has reportedly been conducting a years-long campaign of airstrikes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula with Cairo’s blessing.

Using unmarked warplanes and drones and unconventional flight routes, Tel Aviv has been staging airstrikes against targets in the peninsula at least since 2014, The New York Times said on Saturday. It named former and current British and American officials involved in Middle East policy as its sources.

So far (the usurper regime of) Israel has carried out more than 100 such attacks, the report said.

Apart from Jordan, Egypt is the only Arab country, which is in a peace agreement with the Zionist regime of Israel. Cairo and Tel Aviv have also close intelligence cooperation.

The NY Times alleged that attacks were aimed at Takfiri militant targets. While militancy has taken a considerable toll on security forces and civilians in Sinai, the militants have never been known to use Egypt as a base for attacks on Israeli targets.

The airstrikes are being conducted with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s approval, The Times added. The report said Sisi had kept the strikes secret, only letting a small group of military and intelligence officials in on the cooperation.

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