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Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) released a video on June 30 in which it promised to “uproot the state of the Jews” and remove “Hamas dictators” in Gaza.

“We will uproot the state of the Jews [Israel] and you [Hamas] and Fatah [in the West Bank], and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,” a masked ISIL jihadist said in a the video, adding “the rule of Sharia [Islamic law] will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp [in Syria], will happen in Gaza,” he said, in reference to the besieged Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus.

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said that while there were tensions between Hamas and ISIL in Gaza, the two were cooperating in Sinai.

“There is cooperation between them in the realm of weapons smuggling and terrorist attacks. The Egyptians know this, and the Saudis,” Katz said. “At the same time, within Gaza, ISIL has been flouting Hamas. But they have common cause against the Jews, in Israel or abroad.”

ISIL had threatened to launch attacks around the world to mark the holy month of Ramadan and in celebration of the one-year anniversary of its so-called “caliphate.”

According to a report by the Institute of the Study of War, ISIL plans to consolidate its power in areas it controls in Iraq and Syria and move on taking additional regions. In Egypt and Yemen, ISIL vowed to use ongoing unrest to recruit “amongst the local population while launching large explosive attacks on security forces.”

“ISIL’s affiliates may attempt to administer governance or claim territorial control within the Sinai and Afghanistan, both as a means of proclaiming caliphate expansion and as a way to prepare for future military operations.” the report said.

[On July 1, ISIL’s Egyptian affiliate, known as Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that officials say killed at least 20 Egyptian security personnel.]

The report, released before an attack in Tunisia that killed 38 people, predicted that a massive attack would take place in the north African country.

“ISIL’s affiliates and networks in West Africa will likely continue efforts to plan explosive or mass casualty attacks, either within Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria or southern Europe. ISIS-linked actors may take advantage of refugee flows from Libya into Italy as a means for launching such an attack,” the report said.

The report also predicted that ISIL would “send emissaries” to active terrorist groups in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, launch a propaganda campaign aimed at China, Turkey and Southeast Asian countries and encourage “lone wolf” attacks the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia.

The report also said that ISIL’s strategy would include sparking a sectarian war by hitting Shi’ite targets and mosques, as it did in the June 26 attack on a Shi’ite mosque in Kuwait which killed at least 25.

  ISIL threatens to ‘uproot state of the Jews’, Islamic state, Sharia law, take down ‘secularist’ Palestinians and Hamas, WorldTribune.com, Yisrael Katz