The Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman admitted for the first time on Tuesday that special forces of the Israeli army bombed sites in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and killed five members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The statement came during an interview with the Israeli Army Radio when Lieberman was asked about the news that the Israeli army bombed sites belonging to the ISIS in Sinai in response to the shooting attacks launched from Sinai against Eilat city a week earlier.
Lieberman added “We don’t leave anything without response. I don’t think the existence of the ISIS in Sinai is a serious threat but it’s a real irritant.”
