Israeli intel official says your 'jaw would drop' at terror plots prevented worldwide

FIRST ON FOX: Senior Israeli quality officials accidental warnings delivered to Australia up of a deadly onslaught astatine a Hanukkah solemnisation connected Sydney’s Bondi Beach were portion of a overmuch broader alert: an accelerating planetary emergence successful attempts to execute panic attacks crossed Western countries, progressively aimed not lone astatine Jewish targets, but besides astatine Christians and ample gatherings particularly during spiritual holidays.

According to a elder Israeli quality official, Israel’s overseas quality work has been tracking a crisp summation successful attempted attacks worldwide, galore of them low-tech, rapidly mobilized and designed to exploit unfastened societies and crowded nationalist events.

"We stopped a fewer ticking bombs, the people was connected people’s heads," the elder authoritative told Fox News Digital.

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People be a floral memorial successful honour of the victims of a wide shooting that targeted a Hanukkah solemnisation connected Sunday, astatine Bondi Beach, successful Sydney, Australia, Dec. 16, 2025.  (Flavio Brancaleone/Reuters)

Israeli quality officials accidental Australia is not an outlier. From their perspective, caller months person revealed a signifier of attempted and disrupted plots crossed Europe, North America and beyond, pointing to a sustained planetary menace alternatively than sporadic violence.

"If you knew however galore panic attacks we exposed and prevented," the elder authoritative said, "your jaw would drop."

Israeli quality officials accidental the emergence successful attempted attacks is driven successful portion by however extremist and state-linked networks physique panic infrastructure globally portion deliberately masking their origins.

Officials accidental the networks often trust connected non-Iranian nationals to transportation retired antithetic roles on the operational chain, including logistics, quality gathering, financing and execution, successful bid to blur immoderate transportation to Tehran. In immoderate cases, operatives are recruited from migrant oregon exile backgrounds, portion successful others transgression elements oregon hired proxies are utilized to transportation retired acts of violence.

People stitchery astir a tribute for shooting victims extracurricular the Bondi Pavilion astatine Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a time aft a shooting.  (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

To debar detection, officials accidental the networks trust connected encrypted communications and clandestine in-person meetings, sometimes conducted extracurricular the state wherever an onslaught is planned. In different cases, instructions are delivered remotely done unafraid channels that bypass modular telecommunications monitoring.

According to Israeli assessments, extremist networks are progressively overlapping: jihadist ideology, lone-actor unit and state-linked enactment present beryllium successful the aforesaid ecosystem, fueled by online radicalization and geopolitical instability. Many plots, officials say, are unsophisticated, making them harder to observe aboriginal portion inactive susceptible of causing wide casualties.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: A subordinate of the nationalist leaves the country with her child, who is covered successful an exigency blanket, aft a shooting astatine Bondi Beach connected Dec. 14, 2025 successful Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen dressed successful achromatic fired respective shots astatine Sydney's world-famous Bondi Beach, causing astatine slightest 10 injuries and 3 deaths, and mounting disconnected wide panic connected a Sunday evening. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)

Israeli quality officials and overseas diplomatic sources pass that the menace is not constricted to Jewish targets and is global. "We exposed panic cells successful Germany, Greece, Austria — but not lone Europe — besides successful South America, India and Thailand." The elder authoritative said helium cannot elaborate further.

A elder overseas diplomatic root said the existent situation is being shaped by what they described arsenic a planetary contagion effect, successful which attacks are amplified online, celebrated crossed extremist networks and rapidly imitated elsewhere.

According to the source, attacks are progressively charismatic to extremists due to the fact that they are comparatively casual to transportation retired portion producing outsized intelligence and governmental impact.

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Heavily equipped constabulary officers tin beryllium seen astatine the Christmas marketplace successful Essen, Germany.  (Roland Weihrauch/picture confederation via Getty Images)

The root cautioned that Christian communities and broader civilian gatherings are besides vulnerable, peculiarly during spiritual holidays and symbolic events that pull ample crowds.

This interest has been reflected crossed Europe successful caller weeks, wherever authorities sharply accrued information astatine Christmas markets and vacation celebrations amid warnings that seasonal events contiguous premier targets for extremist violence. Armed patrols, barriers and surveillance were expanded successful aggregate cities arsenic officials assessed elevated risks tied to jihadist-inspired attacks and lone actors.

On Monday, national authorities announced they foiled a New Year’s Eve panic plot, arresting suspects accused of readying coordinated attacks involving improvised explosive devices, according to the Department of Justice. Prosecutors said the crippled was disrupted earlier explosives were afloat assembled, underscoring some the standard of the menace and the value of aboriginal quality intervention.

A 2nd elder Israeli quality root said the broader menace situation has deteriorated aft 2 years of warfare successful the Middle East, which they said has energized extremist Islamist movements globally.

According to the source, instability successful Syria is of peculiar concern, creating conditions that could let ISIS to regroup and erstwhile again task power beyond the region.

"I’m disquieted astir Syria and that ISIS volition return," the root said, informing that renewed enactment determination could animate further attacks successful Europe, Australia and North America.

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Police vans and ambulances basal adjacent to the yearly Christmas marketplace successful the metropolis halfway pursuing a imaginable panic incidental connected Dec. 20, 2024 successful Magdeburg, Germany.  (Craig Stennett/Getty Images)

The root said the increasing prevalence of lone actors and sleeper cells poses a important situation to Western information services, arsenic individuals with minimal resources tin inactive transportation retired deadly attacks and trigger copycat violence.

While Australian authorities person not linked the Bondi Beach onslaught to overseas quality direction, Israeli officials accidental the lawsuit fits into a wider planetary picture: a sustained emergence successful attempted panic attacks, galore of which ne'er go nationalist due to the fact that they are disrupted early.

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"We spot it everywhere," the elder quality authoritative said. "And astir of what we stop, the nationalist ne'er hears about."