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Counterterrorism unit warns Israelis: Leave Sinai immediately
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Sinai, Israel, Hezbollah 

The Prime Minister's Office Counter Terrorism Bureau on Monday issued a warning to Israelis vacationing in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, urging them to return to Israel due to an "immediate and concrete" abduction threat.

While the Counter Terrorism Bureau already issued the warning several times recently, it chose to reiterate it ahead of the Jewish High Holidays, to begin at the end of September, a time when many Israelis vacation abroad.

The warning explains that the threat of Israelis being abducted and smuggled into the Gaza Strip is "grave and immediate," and consequently "urgently calls on all Israelis to leave Sinai immediately, without delay."
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The bureau also warns that "the involvement of the Hezbollah in terror activity raises the alert level" in regard to the advisory currently in place against traveling to Sinai.

"For quite some time, there have been serious concerns for the safety of Israelis visiting or staying in all of Egypt," the warning continues.

Several months ago, the bureau issued an announcement that "terrorist groups planning abductions of Israelis in Sinai may carry out a kidnapping attack very soon."

The level of the warning issued on Monday was described as "very high and concrete."

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