Two days after the attack, the jihadist militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdes ("Partisans of Jerusalem"),[REF] also known as Ansar Jerusalem, an al-Qaeda inspired[REF] militant organization based in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group also claimed that the three militants who carried the attack actually infiltrated into Israel a day before the attack and remained hidden for about a day until they spotted an Israeli patrol and attacked it [REF].