“Tourist and other non-urgent travel to Israel is discouraged. Travel to individual parts of the country is generally discouraged. The risk of escalation has increased further,” the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) wrote on Friday evening on the online portal X.
This is not the first travel warning issued by the Foreign Ministry for Israel. The development of the situation is uncertain and a further deterioration of the security situation is possible at any time; the risk of escalation has increased further, it was said in April, after a major rocket attack from Iran.
There, anti-Israel and anti-Western mass protests broke out in the capital Tehran on Wednesday night following the targeted killing of the political leader of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, Ismail Haniya.
However, the violence in the Middle East originally escalated after the attack by Hamas and other militant groups on Israeli villages from the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year and the subsequent massacre by these terrorists specifically against Jews, with around 1,200 deaths and numerous rapes and kidnappings.
The Israeli army responded with an ongoing counterattack on Gaza without regard for the civilian population, which, according to the UN, has so far led to the deaths of almost 40,000 Palestinians, most of them presumably civilians.
However, Hamas is still holding a hundred Israeli civilians hostage in the Gaza Strip.
