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Hezbollah may be more motivated to strike Jewish targets in Latin America, experts warn

There is ‘an incentive for [Hezbollah]them now to try to hit soft targets abroad in response to what is happening to them in Lebanon,’ Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JI

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Naim Qassem (R), deputy secretary-general of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, and Mohammed Raad (C), head of Hezbollah's bloc in the Lebanese parliament, attend the funeral of top Hezbollah military commander Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 22, 2024. Ibrahim Aqil and other commanders of Hezbollah's "Radwan Force" were killed in an Israeli air strike on September 20.

Jewish communities and law enforcement in Latin America should be on high alert, after Israel killed Hezbollah’s senior command and destroyed large numbers of its weapons near the border, experts warned in recent interviews with Jewish Insider. 

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