The conflict between Israel and Hamas could spread to cities worldwide as a former Hamas chief called for a “Day of Jihad” by Muslim communities.
Khaled Meshaal designated Friday, Oct. 13, as the “Day of Jihad,” asking Muslims to take to the streets and deliver a message of anger in support of Palestinians.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is among those who have responded, saying Americans will be armed and will not be intimidated.
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New York City police on duty tomorrow have all been ordered to show up in uniform and be ready to deploy. This comes as Columbia University closed its campus to the public in preparation for protests there.
Michael Balboni, former New York state homeland security adviser, joined “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to discuss the potential threat, saying, “The thing people are most concerned about is the call for bloodshed.”
“They are not calling for peaceful protests,” he said.
Balboni stressed that there have been calls for a “Day of Jihad” before, but he said this is a different set of circumstances.
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“It is an incredibly emotional time,” he said. “And so what you’re going to see is that people are very, very skittish about this. And they’re nervous.”
Balboni also stressed the importance of maintaining calm.
“New York City has been the place of protests for decades,” he said. “And the New York City Police Department is probably one of the most experienced police forces in the world.”
Furthermore, Balboni said, “If you study, in the past, types of terrorist attacks, what you realize is that it just doesn’t happen overnight.”
Balboni said typically these calls for violence don’t resonate and “doesn’t result in a concerted attack anywhere in the world itself.”
“That takes planning, that takes preparation,” he said. “And you don’t really have that.”
However, Balboni said “there’s no way” that any police force around the world is going to step back and not pay attention to a threat.
But Balboni said there are infrastructure protection strategies currently in place right now.
“They’re going to try to make sure that they have the ability, the incredible show of force, and then use the assets that they have: undercover police officers, informants. And of course, what you have in major cities, especially in New York City, is surveillance, which has been dramatically increased over the years.”
Nonetheless, Balboni said people need to pay attention.
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“Be aware and take certain steps,” he said, “Know who’s coming into your building and do other things to make sure that you can limit the ability of people to perpetrate an attack.” Police from San Jose, Calif., to New York City say they are increasing patrols at Jewish schools and places of worship on Friday, the day a Hamas leader described as “Day of Jihad,” when he asked his followers to take to the streets and deliver a message of anger.
The J. Weekly reported that three schools on the Peninsula would be closed on Friday, and at least two Jewish schools in New York were also closing their doors on Friday, according to the Israel National News.
But other institutions, including the Russian Speaking Jewish Community of San Francisco, vowed to stay open.
“We’re taking this extremely seriously,” Rabbi Shimon Margolin old KTVU. But despite any concerns, services would go on.
He hired off-duty police officer to work security around the building, determined to remain vigilant.
“We don’t want to live in fear anymore,” Margolin said.
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In addition, the Jewish Community Relations Council organized rallies throughout the country on Friday, including in San Francisco, titled “Bring Them Home,” in order to put pressure on the Israeli government to bring back the 150 Israeli hostages, who were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Saturday.
The current fear stems from what senior Hamas official Ali Baraka said in an interview that aired on Russia Today TV on Tuesday. He said the Hamas attack on Israel had been planned for two years, Fox News reported.
And that was followed by former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal calling for protests across the Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinians and for the peoples of neighboring countries to join the fight against Israel.
“[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,” Meshaal, who currently heads Hamas’s diaspora office, said in a recorded statement sent to Reuters.
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on Thursday acknowledged these threatening remarks and suggested that Jewish institutions be on high alert.
