Jerusalem [Israel], August 31 (ANI/TPS): With the upcoming High Holidays being a peak journey time for Jews, Israel’s National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Division launched its evaluation of terror threats in opposition to Israelis overseas on Thursday.

The CTD burdened that it’s only assessing patterns in terror threats around the globe in order that Israelis could make knowledgeable journey plans, and never issuing formal journey advisories.

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The major threats come from Iran, which the CTD referred to as “the main generator of global terrorism.” Tehran “continues its activities to promote harm to Israeli citizens and Jews around the world,” it stated.

The report famous Iranian makes an attempt to contact Israelis overseas within the guise of enterprise or by impersonating others on-line.

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The CTD additionally burdened that Palestinian terror teams, most notably Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have a “high motivation” to abduct Israeli nationals as “bargaining chips.” According to the CTD, Hamas perceives efforts to swap Israeli civilians Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed and the our bodies of Israeli troopers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin to have reached an deadlock.

Mengistu and Sayed, who’re each mentally unstable, have been held in Gaza since they managed to wander throughout the border in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Goldin and Shaul have been killed whereas preventing in Gaza in 2014.

Hamas supreme chief Ismail Haniyeh has acknowledged publicly that “Hamas will not hesitate to promote kidnappings” and that “we have four prisoners in our possession and if this is not enough to convince Israel to make a deal, then we will kidnap more using our arms that are everywhere,” the CTD burdened.

According the evaluation, the areas with the very best chances of threats embody the nations surrounding Iran — Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and the Kurdish area — nations alongside the Mediterranean basin, Africa and Latin America.

In July, for instance, a Cypriot police probe confirmed Israeli intelligence warnings {that a} crew of Iranian hitmen have been on the island concentrating on Israeli businessmen and vacationers.

The CTD singled out Sweden for particular concern “due to the Koran burning events in the country,” and the Sinai Peninsula, calling on Israelis to remain in identified, safe vacationer websites and to not enterprise into the Sinai inside.

Israelis are banned from touring to 5 enemy nations — Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran — even when they maintain extra citizenships and might enter with a special passport. The CTD famous the kidnapping of Elizabeth Tzurkov, a Russian-Israeli doctoral scholar at Princeton University who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 whereas researching jihadist teams.

Tsurkov, 38, is believed to be a captive of Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia backed by Iran. (ANI/TPS)

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