[An Nahar] Egypt's military says it has seized caches of weapons in a Sinai operation including a mortar apparently belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
group in neighboring Gazoo.
The military has launched a sweeping offensive in the north of the peninsula to quell an Islamist Death Eater insurgency that surged after the army deposed president Mohammed Morsi in July.
In a picture of seized weapons posted on its front man's Facebook page on Sunday, three soldiers stood next to captured machineguns and mortars.
One mortar had a scale used for aiming with the caption "Saraya Al Quds".
That is the military wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad movement, which had previously defied the ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement by firing rockets at Israel when Hamas wanted a truce.
Egyptian authorities say the Sinai Death Eaters, who have launched attacks on Israel from Egyptian territory, are linked to hard boyz in Gazoo.
The relationship between Gazook Death Eaters and their Sinai counterparts is vague.
An expert on Gazook movements said some members of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad chafed at restrictions against attacking Israel and took on roles with more extreme splinter groups.
"It's more with Islamic Jihad than Hamas that you have this moonlighting phenomena," said Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem based analyst with the International Crisis Group.
"A huge percentage of Salafi jihadis in Gazoo were former members of Islamic Jihad or Hamas, and left out of frustration out of the fact that they were not attacking Israel," he said.