Virginia Man Arrested for Allegedly Planning ‘Mass Casualty’ Attack at Israeli Consulate in NYC

An Egyptian man living in Virginia who was slated to be deported has been charged with planning an attack on the Israeli consulate in New York City.

Abdullah Azz al-Din Taha Muhammad Hassan reportedly shared bomb-making instructions and a plot to attack the Manhattan consulate with an FBI informant, as per legal documents. The FBI informed Fox News Digital of his arrest on Tuesday.

Hassan faces accusations of dispersing information about explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction to aid a federal offense. 

Hassan also asked for the source to livestream the attack so he could watch it in real time, authorities said. 

Jonathan Harounoff, the global representative for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the UN, declared that the nation stands resolute against terrorism in a public statement.

“We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence,” he said. “We will not stop in our pursuit of justice and peace. We will continue in our fight to return all 100 of our hostages still being held in Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza.”

Sara Netanyahu and Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel, attend Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the 79th session of the General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters.  (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ofir Akunis, Israel’s consul general in New York, expressed gratitude to authorities for thwarting the alleged attack. 

“This attempted attack by terror organizations is an attack on the sovereign soil of the State of Israel in its entirety,” he wrote on X. “It’s proof that terror knows no boundaries and that we must fight it everywhere and every time. The threat it poses to the western world and its values must be fought together by all western democracies alike. Together we will prevail.”