Israel says Islamic State's Sinai assault aimed to help Hamas get arms

srael accused Hamas on Tuesday of supporting last week's assaults by Islamic State affiliates on Egyptian forces in the Sinai in hope of freeing up arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip.

The remarks followed Israeli allegations that Hamas members provided training and medical treatment for the Sinai insurgents - charges dismissed by the Palestinian Islamist group as a bid to further fray its troubled ties with Cairo.

Egypt said more than 100 insurgents and 17 of its soldiers were killed in Wednesday's simultaneous assaults, carried out against military checkpoints around the North Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Islamic State's Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, took credit for the attacks.

Rafah straddles the border between Egypt and Gaza and had long seen smuggling to the Hamas-controlled enclave. But Cairo has been cracking down on such activity and deems Hamas a threat to Egyptian interests.

An Israeli intelligence colonel responsible for monitoring the borders with Egypt and Gaza said on Tuesday that Hamas, short of weaponry after its war against Israel last year, supported the Sinai assaults with the "objective of opening up a conduit" for renewed smuggling.



http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/07/us-mideast-crisis-islamicstate-egypt-idUSKCN0PH1ZH20150707

Says Israel who is helping ISIS by patching up their fighters, when Hamas are fighting them in Yarmouk!!!    You couldn't make it up!

Laugh all you like Sassy, lets see what pans out and if Hamas are found to be culpable, where is then your argument on then arming Hamas?
Which in actual effect is arming ISIS.
So helping wounded men is now wrong to sassy even though there is no evidence they are even ISIS but actual Syrian groups fighting ISIS
How heartless of sassy, that medical people should now allow people to slowly die on their injuries.
How many doctors do you know or nurses would back such a stance Sassy?