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IDF Sees Growing Support for Islamic State in Gaza
(Ha'aretz-Jerusalem Post) Jonathan Lis - IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday that support for the Islamic State in Gaza is growing stronger and is estimated at about 14%. He added that organizations affiliated with IS have also been growing stronger in Sinai, and are operating in cooperation with the terrorist organizations in Gaza. Eisenkot also said Hizbullah was in strategic distress, having lost hundreds of fighters in the Syrian war - 100 in the last month alone.