CTB issues travel advisory ahead of Passover
Counter Terrorism Bureau says high risk of terror attacks, kidnappings in Sinai, lists warnings for Turkey, parts of Thailand
The announcement includes six countries to which travel is forbidden for Israelis – Syria, Iran, Iraq (Kurdistan), Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. There were 27 additional countries which posed various levels of threat.
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The highest threat levels were listed for Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan. They were followed by Algeria, Tunis, Djibouti, Mauritania, Mali, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso and Libya.
A basic threat, according to the bureau, is ever present in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan. This while Morocco, Kenya, Turkey and Nigeria, Ajzerban and Oman are listed as countries that are potentially threatening and it was recommended to postpone travel to those countries.
Taba crossing several months ago (Photo: Yair Sagi Yedioth Ahronoth)
(Photo: Yair Sagi Yedioth Ahronoth)
High level warnings were also issued for eight regions including the Philippines, Chechnya, north Nigeria, parts of south Thailand, east Senegal and the coastal areas of Kenya.
“These types of notices disrupted more than once plans of enemies to cancel terror activity in the places they were issued,” the bureau said.
The bureau emphasized that “the warnings come after longstanding global campaigns by Iran and Hezbollah, which in the last two years have made great efforts to carry out attacks outside the country against Israeli and Jewish targets. Any Israeli outside of the country is marked as a potential target, and civilian targets are undefended, thus they are easy targets for terror attacks.”
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