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Armed Attack on Israeli Embassy, Belgrade — 29 June 2024
Spot report following alert: Armed attack on Israeli Embassy, Belgrade, neutralised by Serbian police, 29 June 2024. Original alert Situation
On 29 June 2024, Miloš Žujović, a 25-year-old Serbian convert to Islam, approached the guardhouse of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade and wounded a Serbian gendarme with a crossbow before being shot dead by the officer in self-defence. The attack did not breach the embassy perimeter; casualties were limited to the assailant and the wounded officer. Žujović was linked to the ultra-conservative Wahhabist movement and was later claimed by Islamic State (IS). Serbian authorities designated the incident a "targeted terrorist act" and raised the national terrorism threat level to its highest tier. No prior lethal terrorist attacks on diplomatic missions in Serbia are documented, which makes this event unusually severe for the country. The attack exposes an active Islamist-inspired extremism within Serbia, tied to Wahhabist networks and IS, that goes beyond isolated lone-actor violence. Whether Žujović had direct operational links to an IS cell or acted solely on ideological inspiration is not yet known.
Sources
- decis-alert-feed/tripwire, 2026-10-28
- timesofisrael.com, 2026-10-28
- timesofisrael.com, 2026-10-28
- wftv.com, ksat.com, clickondetroit.com, 2026-10-28
- en.wikipedia.org, timesofisrael.com, 2026-10-28
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