Following the collapse of their terror project in Syria and Iraq, the U.S.-Israel alliance has set its sights on Egypt’s Sinai region, where Daesh has recently experienced a resurgence that culminated in a deadly mosque attack that killed 305 worshippers in Arish’s Rawda Mosque on Friday.

According to Egyptian officials, a group of 25- 30, who were carrying flags of the Daesh terrorist organization and had arrived in Jeeps, were responsible for the attack.

Tamer al-Rifai, a spokesman for the military, stated in a written statement that the Egyptian air force has tracked the terrorists and pinpointed their location in al-Arish’s al-Hades region, where they were targeted by the army. However, al-Rifai has not provided any numbers with regards to the casualties of the attack.

Fingers point to Israel being behind the Daesh terror group’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, as Egyptian politicians and media accuse the Jewish state of being the structuring of the terror group affiliate.

Semi-official Al-Ahram daily held Israel responsible for Daesh’s presence in Sinai in its April 13, 2017 issue. It also stressed in an article from the same issue that Israel stands to gain from Daesh’s attack in Sinai.

Sinai turned into a hotbed of terror

Israel withdrew completely from the then-occupied Sinai Peninsula in 1989, and since then the region has turned into a hotbed for terrorism.

After occupying the peninsula in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, Israel withdrew from Sinai following the Camp David accord in 1987.

In 2004, the Tawhid and Jihad group carried out a deadly attack against the Hilton hotel in Sinai’s Taba, ushering in a new era for terror in the peninsula.

Money and arms funneled to Daesh through links

Various armed groups with ties to al-Qaeda and Bedouins whose houses were destroyed by the Sisi regime began to rally around the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, which was founded in 2011 in Sinai.

In 2014, it declared its allegiance to Daesh and rebranded itself four days later as the “Wilayat Sinai.”

Since then the group had gained access to a great deal of money and arms which were funneled to peninsula.

On Friday, attackers bombed a mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed in North Sinai before opening fire on fleeing worshippers.

A total of 27 children were among the victims, while 128 other people were injured in the attack, the Egyptian Prosecution said in a statement on Saturday.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in Egypt’s modern memory.

Egyptian authorities have declared three days of mourning with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowing a firm response to the deadly attack.