Israel’s National Security Council on Monday raised travel warnings for most European countries, especially those located in the far west of the continent, which were placed at threat level two.
With this measure, the Israeli authorities call on their citizens to “be very careful” when traveling to countries such as Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Germany or Italy, among others. In Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania the alert level is higher.
Countries in South America, such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Bolivia, and countries such as China and Russia, as well as the southern part of India, also fall into threat level two, according to the same source.
Israeli authorities have classified most countries in North Africa and the Sahel, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region at alert level three, asking Israelis to “reconsider non-essential travel.”
On the other hand, the Israeli Security Council considers the countries of North and Central America, the continental countries of Southeast Asia, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan, among others, to be safe destinations.
Other European countries such as Norway, Finland, the Baltics, Poland, Belarus and much of the Balkans are also covered by alert level one.
Israeli authorities have acknowledged that since the start of operations in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, there has been an increase in efforts by Iran and its allies against Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
“There is a constant and significant increase in incitement, attempted attacks and demonstrations of anti-Semitism in many countries,” Israel’s Security Council further stated.
The ongoing war in the Middle East began on October 7 following an attack by the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which included the launching of thousands of rockets into Israel and the infiltration of some three thousand fighters that killed more than 1,200 people. most of them civilians, and kidnapped another 240 in Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.
In retaliation, the Israel Defense Forces led a relentless offensive by air, land and sea in that Palestinian enclave, which faces a serious humanitarian crisis due to the collapse of hospitals and the lack of shelter, drinking water, food, medicine and electricity.
The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas since 2007, raised the death toll in the Israeli offensive to almost 15,900 on Monday, while more than 250 Palestinians died at the hands of Tel Aviv forces or in attacks by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7.
The sides ceased hostilities for a week under a truce brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, but clashes returned last Friday after a failure to extend the agreement.
The Israeli military campaign has drawn international criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties.
Source: TSF
