Prime Minister Netanyahu sends his “deepest sympathies” to the families of the victims brutally murdered in Paris.
Speaking at the Prime minister’s Office, he says Israel stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Paris in the struggle against Islamic extremism that is roiling the Middle East and beyond.
Speaking in French, Hebrew and English, he says he has instructed Israel’s intelligence and security services to offer all possible input and assistance to France and others grappling with the terror onslaught.
He has also ordered tightened security at Israeli missions and Jewish sites that might be potential targets.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
He decries the “systematic and deliberate” attacks on innocents, and says there can never be justification for terrorism; it must be condemned and fought.
He says the world faces increasing militant Islamic terrorism. It attacks Israel and others because it wants to destroy us, he says. All terrorists must be fought without hesitancy, he says.
“I urge the entire civilized world to unite and defeat the plague of global terror,” he concludes.
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