• Jihadism.It reveals the identity of the new leader of the SI, an Iraqi who served as 'number two' of Al Baghdadi
  • Wide Angle.The IS takes advantage of the Iran-US clash to relaunch its global terror campaign

The Islamic State agitates terror on the eve of US President Donald Trump making public his controversial peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . His spokesman has proclaimed a "new phase" of attacks against Israel from its branches in neighboring territories and has urged his supporters around the world to "fight the Jews" wherever they are.

"We are still here. And we are prepared to begin a new phase in our war against you to recover everything you usurped from Muslims. The eyes of the caliphate will remain on Jerusalem . In the next few days, you will suffer because the honorable and brave [ new IS leader] will come to you, "promised the new spokesman for the terrorist organization, Abu Hamza al Qurayshi , in an audio message broadcast by Al Furqan, one of the group's media branches.

This is the first speech from which in November it served to confirm the death of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and present his substitute, Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi. So far, the IS (Islamic State, for its acronym in English) has not played a noteworthy role in the dispute that for decades has faced Palestinians and Israelis and modeled the Middle East upheaval. It does not even have an active branch in the Palestinian territories.

In his call to the 37-minute attacks, Abu Ibrahim especially mentions "the soldiers of dear Sinai and the blessed Levant (Syria)", two of the most organized branches of the jihadist organization and those bordering on Israel . "Under you there are Jewish settlements and markets. Turn them into lands where you can test your chemical weapons and other weapons and missiles," the spokesman urges.

In full recomposition and rearmament after the loss of Al Baghdadi and the territory that once enjoyed in Syria and Iraq, the IS now tries to appropriate the conflict and capitalize on the outrage it causes to strengthen its resurrection . "Join the caliphate soldiers who seek to tear down the borders and the levees that prevent them from fighting against the Jews," said the spokesman, who assumed the title after the death of Abu Hasan al Muhajir at the end of last October on a mission to the US special forces parallel to the one that claimed the life of the then caliph.

"Muslims living in Palestine and beyond, be the spearhead in the battle against the Jews and make their plots fail as their 'agreement of the century'," Abu Ibrahim said in reference to the plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict designed by Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner that the Republican plans to unveil this Monday coinciding with the meetings in Washington that he will have with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his electoral rival, the centrist Benny Gantz.

In the message, entitled "Allah destroyed them completely and a similar fate awaits the infidels," the new spokesman also mocks the Iraqi government and its army and their inability to "impose their order on the ground," defend their sovereignty. and expel the US troops from their territory, a matter of topicality in Baghdad after the request for departure approved by Parliament and the protest on Friday organized by the cleric Muqtada al Sadr after the drone attack that liquidated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani .

The group says that despite the military pressure it maintains its presence in Syria and Iraq, where it came to occupy and control large areas and has managed to maintain its "war". In a direct message to the Iraqi Sunni tribes, the spokesman advances that "they constantly receive lists of names of collaborative members [with local authorities] of the tribes" and that they will be attacked "sooner or later" by the organization's hosts, which They have embraced the underground.

Its Syrian and Iraqi militants are urged to travel "to the nearest province" and strengthen the group's cells while hoping to free those behind bars and ask their acolytes not to "entertain themselves" with internal disputes.

The resurgence of the IS worries the Iraqi security forces. Tanned in the insurgency, the movement has increased its actions in recent months , with the placement of improvised explosive devices, selective killings and ambushes of Iraqi troops in the provinces of Saladin, Kirkuk, Diyala or Nineveh. In Syria, the thumping of war and extremism incubated in the camps of Al Hol and Al Roj - where relatives of militants of the group live - also contribute to the rebirth of the last hosts.

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