The Israel Broadcasting Corporation announced the evacuation of a number of its embassies around the world as the United States called on its citizens abroad to be cautious, against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Broadcasting Corporation said Tel Aviv had evacuated its embassies in a number of countries in the region, including Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco and Egypt, as well as Turkey.
The broadcaster reported that the Israeli Foreign Ministry had ordered 20 Israeli embassies around the world, specifically Europe and Latin America, to stay at home.
On the other hand, the US State Department today issued a "global security alert" to American citizens abroad, asking them to exercise caution, noting the growing tension in various locations in the world and the possibility of "extremists" attacking Americans and targeting them with acts of violence.
The warning did not refer to any specific global event or war, but it comes amid ongoing conflict in the region after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7 in response to the Israeli occupation attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel then bombarded the Gaza Strip with air strikes that left thousands dead.
On the domestic front, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said today that the department is monitoring an increase in reports of threats to the Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities in the United States related to Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.
Garland said he last week directed the FBI and U.S. attorneys general offices to work with states and local law enforcement to address threats and urged federal prosecutors to reach out to leading and religious figures in the communities.
The Axios newspaper also quoted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as saying it had detected an increase in reports of threats against Jewish and Muslim communities.
Since October 7, Israel has continued to launch intensive raids on Gaza, leaving thousands of civilians dead and wounded, and cutting off the supply of water, electricity, food and medicines, which has raised local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe, in parallel with intensive Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank.
In response to daily Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, initially storming Israeli settlements and military sites in the Gaza Strip.