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Al-Qaida and IS call on followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets
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Al-Qaida and Islamic State (IS) have called on their followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets, raising the prospect of new terrorist violence in the Middle East or the west.
In a series of statements over the past two weeks, affiliates of al-Qaida congratulated Hamas on its “invasion of Israel”, a reference to the terrorist attacks that killed 1,400 people, mainly civilians, on 7 October.
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.
Ken McCallum, the director general of Britain’s domestic spy agency, MI5, said there was a risk that “self-initiated” individuals who might have been radicalised online may respond in “spontaneous or unpredictable ways” in the UK after the terrorist attacks on Israel and what could become a drawn-out conflict.
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.
IS lost its so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq, while al-Qaida’s veteran leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike last year.
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