Israeli military offensive in Gaza offers opportunity to extremist groups in west and Middle East, experts say
Police outside the synagogue and school of the Kahal Adass Jisroel Jewish community after a Molotov cocktail attack on 18 October in Berlin.Police outside the synagogue and school of the Kahal Adass Jisroel Jewish community after a Molotov cocktail attack on 18 October in Berlin. have called on followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets, raising the prospect of new terrorist violence in the Middle East or the west.
The Israeli military offensive in Gaza, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and so far killed more than 4,500 people, according to medical authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory, has provoked outrage across the Islamic world.A recent statement from al-Shabaab, al-Qaida’s powerful affiliate in Somalia, said the conflict in the Middle East was not just “the battle of the Islamic factions in the land of Palestine in particular, but rather the battle of the entire Muslim Ummah.
“We congratulate your actions and urge you to continue, biting your teeth with patience on the path of jihad,” the groups said in a statement. “They attacked the Jews … wanting to lift the sword of humiliation from their necks.” Earlier this month, a teacher was stabbed to death in France by an attacker who had sworn allegiance to IS and two Swedish football fans were shot in Brussels by a 45-year-old known to security services and suspected of radical sympathies.
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