The Qatari newspaper Al-Araby al-Jadeed reported on Wednesday that senior figures from Palestinian terrorist organizations abroad, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have adopted stricter security precautions following Israel’s threats of targeted assassinations.

According to Arab media reports, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the leader of the Palestinian terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, is spending most of his time in Egypt.

An Egyptian source told the London-based Al-Araby al-Jadeed that Cairo had cautioned against any attack on Al-Nakhalah, who is in the Egyptian capital almost permanently due to the rising threat of an Israeli strike.

The source added that Egypt, as part of its mediation role in negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, recently received a request to provide Al-Nakhalah

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