“Indian intelligence services have warned Israel that Jewish institutions, Chabad houses and Israeli tourists are under direct threat of terror attacks in the country.”
“Advanced plans by a terror cell associated with global jihad groups to target Israeli and Jewish sites throughout the country” have been uncovered and sites include “a synagogue in southern India and concentrations of Israelis in the country’s north and west.”
Jerusalem recently backed “India’s move to abrogate a key constitutional article that had given the regions of Kashmir and Jammu special status with limited autonomy.” So now violence, intimidation and thuggery are resorted to by jihadists which is a norm. What makes this new targeting of Jews in India more worrying is the possible level of Iranian influence. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been in discussion with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Ayatollah Khamenei over Kashmir.
“India says Israeli, Jewish targets under immediate terror threat — reports,” Times of Israel, November 11, 2019:
Indian intelligence services have warned Israel that Jewish institutions, Chabad houses and Israeli tourists are under direct threat of terror attacks in the country, according to Israeli and Indian reports.
Channel 12 reported Monday that India unveiled specific information pointing to advanced plans by a terror cell associated with global jihad groups to target Israeli and Jewish sites throughout the country, including a synagogue in southern India and concentrations of Israelis in the country’s north and west.
The information — said to have possibly been received from intelligence services of a third, friendly country — also pointed to the option that an Israeli backpacker could be kidnapped.
India hasn’t yet apprehended the cell members, leading Jewish institutions to increase their security in response to the threat.
Last week, Indian news site City Today reported similar details, adding that the terror cells were linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. It said a cell had recently visited the southwestern city of Kochi to spy on Jews there.
That report said jihadists were attempting to hit Israeli targets as retaliation for Jerusalem’s recent backing for India’s move to abrogate a key constitutional article that had given the regions of Kashmir and Jammu special status with limited autonomy….
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