Islamic State releases new Hebrew-language video threatening destruction of Israel
In another video group claims responsibility for murders of Syrian activist, friend in southern Turkey.
The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday appears to have posted a new video in Hebrew threatening to wage bloody jihad on Israel.
It features a jihadist delivering genocidal threats couched in coarsely anti-Semitic language, including references to Jews as “the grandchildren of monkeys and pigs.”
It was posted to YouTube but since taken down from the video-sharing website.
If confirmed as authentic, this is not the first Hebrew-language video the group has produced. Last month it released one also featuring a masked jihadist calling for Jewish State to be wiped off the map and vowing that “not one Jew will be left in Jerusalem or around it. We will continue until we eradicate this disease from the world.”
The jihadists in both videos speak Hebrew with a pronounced Arabic accent.
IS claims murders of Syrian activist, friend in Turkey.
In another video posted on Sunday, the extremist group claimed responsibility for the brutal murders of a Syrian anti-IS activist and his friend in southern Turkey last week.
The video posted online said IS “slaughtered” Ibrahim Abdul Qader, 20, and fellow media activist Fares Hamadi in Sanliurfa on Friday “after they conspired with the Crusaders against the Islamic State”.
Abdul Qader had been working with the Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) activist group, which sheds light on IS atrocities in areas under jihadist control in Syria.
“May every apostate know that he will be slaughtered silently,” the video said, in an apparent reference to the group’s title.
The video then displayed a series of news reports about the RBSS group and its anti-IS activities.
It closed with amateur video footage of a man who appeared to be Hamadi, his throat slit.