Israelis warned of travel amid terror threat, including Jordan


19-08-2013 03:55 PM

Ammon News - Israelis given High Holiday travel warnings

AMMONNEWS - Israeli authorities on Monday advised its citizens to avoid traveling to several countries, including Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey amid what it claimed to be a terror threat by groups such as Al-Qaida and global Jihad groups.

The Prime Minister Office's Counter-Terrorism Bureau called on Israelis and Jews to avoid travel during the High Holidays, a popular time for leisure travel, to countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Kenya, and Turkey and called on Israelis currently in the Sinai Peninsula to leave immediately, Israeli media sources reported.

The bureau also advised Israelis and Jews to leave Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, and Djibouti, Indonesia, the Ivory Coast, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, and Tunisia, and to not travel to Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE.

The bureau advisory warned that terrorists and terror groups such as al-Qaida and global Jihad groups might try to attack Jewish and Israeli targets on Sept. 11, JTA reported.

The travel warnings are reported not to be binding.




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