<p><br /> Israeli holidaymakers have been told to leave the Sinai peninsula in Egypt immediately due to a kidnap plot.<br /> </p><p><br /> The warning by Israel's security agencies came after a rumour that an Israeli had been kidnapped in Sinai. The Israeli emergency service Zaka later said the rumour was untrue.<br /> </p><p><br /> But the security services said they had concrete information of an imminent plan by militants to kidnap an Israeli citizen<br /> </p><p><br /> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement: "According to concrete intelligence we anticipate an immediate terror activity to kidnap an Israeli in Sinai."<br /> </p><p><br /> Despite a number of major bombing attacks in the Sinai in recent years, the sun-drenched peninsula remains a popular tourist destination for Israelis. Some 20,000 visited during the week-long Jewish Passover holiday, which started on March 29. Only a few hundred are thought to remain in the area.<br /> </p><p><br /> Israel fears that Palestinian militants intend to kidnap Israelis in Sinai and transfer them to the Gaza Strip through tunnels under the border with Egypt.<br /> </p>
