Sinai Border

IDF Expects Major Terror Attack from Sinai

Hundreds of terrorists in Sinai recently expressed allegiance to ISIS – and the IDF is preparing for the worst, including in Eilat.

Southern Command deployed in response to heightened tensions between Egypt, Sinai terror groups. 'We don't take risks,' officer explains.

Individual communities along border with Sinai and Gaza will no longer have guard units.

Moshe Yaalon: Egyptian army operating effectively but process is taking longer "than we'd like"

Yisrael Hayom quotes Egyptian source: Israel agrees to patrols by Egyptian jets on Israel's border.

A senior Egyptian military official who has refused to be named has accused Israel of attempting to provoke Egypt.

Western defense sources say 20 to 30 M-60A3 tanks, Avenger SAMs and F-16s deployed along border with Israel.

Egyptian intelligence sources say terrorist Ibrahim Nasser was on a motorcycle, 15 km. from Israeli border.

Three Egyptian police officers were killed early Sunday in a high speed chase after “armed criminals” in the Sinai Peninsula.

Requests renewed after sniper fire hits bus transporting soldiers Sunday.

Monday's attack by terrorists against Israelis building the security fence shows that Egypt is losing control in Sinai, Ehud Barak said

"We await the results of the elections; whoever is elected must stop these attacks quickly."

Authorities have arrested a Hamas terrorist in connection with a plot to carry out a new attack near Eilat, and kidnap another IDF soldier.

For the first time since the deadly bus ambush that killed 8 Israelis in August, the IDF will open a closed stretch on Route 12 to Eilat.