ISIS issues chilling new threat to murder British tourists at popular resorts in Spain

BRIT expats and holidaymakers face a gauntlet of terror this summer - after ISIS declared war on Spain.

The death cult promised revenge over "crimes committed by Spain against Muslims".

More than 300,000 Brit expats call the Iberian nation home.

And with 12million more visiting the country each year, the threat puts Brits in the firing line.

One sick fanatic warned: "As their governments kill our brothers, so should we [seek] revenge and reprisal."

The article, published by Abu Marya Al-Aseefon on ISIS' media channel Al-Wafa, added: "[Spanish soldiers are] still killing Muslims in the eastern and western parts of the Earth, sometimes with bomb-carrying air jets and other times with the direct participation on the ground."

Bizarrely, an 800-year-old battle was cited as justification for any attacks.

The Battle of Navas de Tolosa in 1212 saw the Islamic Moors defeated as the Spanish began to push back their invaders.

Brit tourists were targeted in June last year when lone gunman Seifeddine Rezgui shot dozens of sunbathers on a packed beach in Sousse, Tunisia.

Of the 38 killed, 33 were British and Irish.

Spaniards were also chillingly threatened with being beheaded or kidnapped in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya.

Spain was last struck by a terror attack in 2004, when 192 were killed by a series of al-Qaeda bombings on Madrid trains.

The Foreign Office ranks Spain as a "high threat" destination - the same level as France, Belgium, Egypt and Turkey.

Its advice to tourists reads: "In 2015, Spanish police disrupted a number of groups suspected of recruiting individuals to travel to Syria and Iraq.

"Some of them expressed an intention to carry out attacks in Europe. Several further police operations have taken place in 2016.

";Spanish authorities believe that a number of Spanish nationals have successfully travelled to Syria and Iraq."

Europe is on high alert this summer following a number of indiscriminate attacks by terrorists pledging allegiance to Islamic State.

Last month a "soldier of Islam" drove a 19-tonne lorry through Bastille Day revellers on Nice's promenade.

By the end of the murderous rampage 85 lay dead and more than 300 injured.

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