London, Thanasis Gavos

The threat of a terrorist attack on British soil is growing rapidly due to the war in the Gaza Stripthe country’s senior security officials are said to have warned British MPs in closed briefings.

As revealed by Daily Mail, MPs have been warned that the ongoing war in the Middle East is being used by international Islamist organizations as “recruitment advertisement”.

Security officials pointed out that the volume of disturbing conversations between extremists intercepted by British security services is at its highest level since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

An MP with knowledge of these updates told the newspaper: “It’s like when the Twin Towers fell in 2001, there’s been a big spike in hate.”

A Mail source warned that now exists “real danger” either a coordinated terrorist act or an individual attack by a perpetrator outside a known organization.

It has also been noted to the deputies that concern of the security services about the possibility of an increase “extremist activity” during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins next Sunday.

The Mail’s revelation comes after the prime minister’s surprise speech Rishi Sunak outside Downing Street on Friday night in which he blasted the “poison” of extremism in the country and called on citizens to face it together.

However, in his article in the Mail on Sunday the former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Robert Jenricknow a fierce critic of Mr. Sunak, argued that security services and police are overstretched to deal with “the cancer of Islamic extremism”.