The Islamic State (ISIS) accused Israel of launching an airstrike that killed five of its members in Egypt's northern Sinai region on Saturday. The claim was made by the terror group's Egyptian branch Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis as reported by ISIS' propaganda outlet Amaq news agency.

The report stated that a rocket fired from a drone struck a car near Shabana village, south of Rafah town near the Egypt-Israel border. Amaq said that the militants "fell as martyrs to the Jewish enemy." The Israel Defense Force (IDF) normally does not comment on such accusations, but the Egyptian Army already cleared the Israelis of the incident.

The airstrike is the latest violent incident between ISIS and Israel. On Feb. 8, four missiles were fired from the Sinai Desert which targeted Israel's southern city of Eilat. The IDF's Iron Dome shot down three of the four rockets, but the fourth projectile evaded the missile defense battery and exploded in an open field.

No one was killed or injured, but the incident caused anxiety attacks among the locals, with four people rushed to Eilat hospital. The Wilayat Sayna militant group, a branch of ISIS in Egypt owned up to the missile attack, saying: "With the grace of God alone, a military squad fired several Grad rockets at encampments of Jewish usurpers in the city of Um al-Rashrash [Eilat] in order to teach the Jews and the crusaders that a proxy war will not avail them of anything."

On Feb. 9, an airstrike was carried out in Rafah, killing two Palestinians which the Hamas terror group blamed on Israel in retaliation to the rocket attack the previous day. Israel, which warned civilians to flee Sinai Peninsula for safety, denied the attack. ISIS has expressed its intention to expand the war in the Middle East to include Israel.