Israel killed hundreds of ISIS terrorists, says former Army chief

June 13, 2023 15:52

Israeli lawmaker and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot revealed on Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces conducted external operations against Islamic State in 2015.

"ISIS knows best how frequently the IDF acted in the Middle East, and they paid a price in hundreds of killed and injured," Eisenkot said at an Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv. The National Unity Party Knesset member said that Jerusalem was asked to act against ISIS by an unspecified third party, but did not elaborate.

He also did not reveal where any of the activity took place, saying only that it spanned "many more than one country."

"There are few states in the world that can identify targets the size of a postage stamp and then strike it with a missile anywhere within a 1,000-kilometer [620 mile] radius.... Our enemies saw us do this, the Russians saw it and so did the Americans," said Eisenkot.

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