Palestinian terrorists linked to Fatah threatened on Monday to attack Jews overseas to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners from its jails. Islamic Jihad, also said they supported violence to free more than 8,000 prisoners held by Israel.
"This is an open call to all our fighters in the homeland to focus on kidnapping Israeli soldiers and civilians inside our occupied land. And if the enemy does not release our prisoners, then Zionists outside Palestine will be an easy target for our fighters," the group said in a statement.
The threat was made shortly before a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and six other people at a sandwich stand in Tel Aviv, an attack claimed by both Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa. It was later learned that Islamic Jihad was responsible.
Israel freed nearly 400 prisoners in June as part of pledges to secure the ceasefire, but Palestinians said this was not enough. Israel has said it will not release prisoners who have "blood on their hands".
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