Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and expresses his condolences, and the solidarity of the Israeli people, over a terrorist attack that occurred Sunday at a resort in the African country.
The prime minister says Israel is ready to assist in the fight against terrorism.
Netanyahu invites Ouattara to visit Israel.
People leave the beach after heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam, March 13, 2016. (AFP/ISSOUF SANOGO)
Al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate claimed a deadly attack by heavily armed gunmen on an Ivory Coast resort on Sunday that killed at least 16 people, US-based monitors said.
The strike, which targeted three hotels in the former French colonial capital that is popular with Western expatriates, killed 14 civilians and two special forces troops, he said.
The resort lies on the Gulf of Guinea around 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the commercial hub Abidjan.
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