September 2012 southern Israel cross-border attack
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September 2012 southern Israel cross-border attack refers to an incident on 21 September 2012, when three Egyptian militants, wearing civilian clothes and armed with explosive belts, AK-47 rifles and RPG launchers, approached the Egypt-Israel border in an area where the Egypt–Israel barrier was incomplete, and opened fire on a group of IDF soldiers supervising the civilian workers who were constructing the border fence.
September 2012 southern Israel cross-border attack | |
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Part of Sinai insurgency | |
Location | Southern Israel near Mount Harif |
Coordinates | 30°29′40″N 34°33′27″E |
Date | 21 September 2012; 11 years ago (2012-09-21) |
Attack type | Spree shooting |
Weapons | RPG launchers, two explosive belts, grenades and AK-47 rifles |
Deaths | 1 Israeli soldier, 3 Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militants |
Injured | 1 Israeli soldier |
Perpetrators | Militants from Ansar Bait al-Maqdis[1][2] |
Motive | Response to the film Innocence of Muslims and to "discipline the Jews for their heinous acts."[3][4] |
The militants opened fire on a small group of IDF soldiers, shooting from a distance of about 100 meters.[5][6] During the incident, which was thwarted at a relatively early stage by the IDF forces,[7] one Israeli soldier was killed and another moderately wounded.[8] Both of the soldiers were graduates of Hesder yeshivas.[9] The three militants were killed in the ensuing gunfight; one was killed by a female soldier from the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion.[9]
The jihadist militant group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, an al-Qaeda-inspired militant organization based in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack.[1][2]
The border attack was the fourth cross-border incident of its kind to be carried out in a period of approximately one year, despite Egypt's attempt to eradicate militant activity in the Sinai Peninsula.[10]