The Islamic State terrorist group IS has called on members and supporters of the group to fight against Europe and Israel while the West is distracted by the situation in Ukraine, according to an online announcement cited by Times on April 18.
The new IS spokesman, Omar al-Muhajir, called for help in a message issued on the occasion of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.
A representative of the terrorist group IS called on members to arm themselves, calling for a campaign to take revenge for the death of Isis leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi - even though he was believed to have been killed earlier this year in an American raid, not by Europeans or Israel.
Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi is the successor to the founding leader and US air target Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. After Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi was killed, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi became the next new leader of IS.
While Western Europe is concerned about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines. However, Israel has expanded its attacks on Palestinians, conducting regular raids in the West Bank following two IS terrorist attacks. The violence culminated in a confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosque on April 15, injuring more than 150 Palestinians.
While the recording contains content about " released" Jerusalem by forming caliphate - one of the favorite topics of discussion of IS - experts quoted by Times no longer believe that IS has the ability to conduct major operations abroad.
In 2019, then-US President Donald Trump officially declared defeat to IS by killing leader al-Baghdadi. The terrorist group has been pushed back to a relatively small area in Syria, which the group once held in key territory, after years of fighting by the Syrian, Russian, Iranian and US military.
However, an IS branch, called ISIS-K, carried out a deadly bombing at Kabul airport in Afghanistan while the US evacuated its staff and withdrew troops from the country after 20 years of war. Several attacks in Europe are believed to have been carried out by supporters of IS, including the brutal murder of British lawmaker David Amess.
