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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

2016 Brussels attack

An arrivals and departure board is seen behind blown out windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels, March 23, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
September 16, 2023, 2:51 am
Belgian court hands out heavy sentences over Brussels terror attack
Eight men given lengthy prison time over 2016 suicide bombings at airport and metro that killed 32 people and were claimed by Islamic State
By Matthieu Demeestere
An arrivals and departure board is seen behind blown out windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels, March 23, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
July 26, 2023, 8:54 am
Six found guilty of murder for 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels that killed 32
Attacks on Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system, which also wounded hundreds of people, were claimed by the Islamic State terror group
By Matthieu Demeestere
A banner for the victims of the bombings reads 'I am Brussels' at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
September 17, 2021, 7:03 pm
Belgium charges 10 over 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels
Six of those indicted by Brussels prosecutors are currently on trial in France for the November 2015 attacks there
By AFP
illustrative: Soldiers patrol as passengers arrive at a temporarily check in a terminal at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, Belgium, Monday, April 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Laurie Dieffembach, Pool)
July 9, 2021, 10:13 pm
Israeli officials: Belgium airport scare likely Iranian test of Israeli security
After suspicious bag found, two departure halls evacuated and Doha-bound flight forced to return to Brussels Thursday in what local authorities said was a false alarm
By ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on March 22, 2016 forensic police units and investigators are at work outside the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels, after a triple bomb attack at the airport and in the metro killed 32 people (NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / BELGA / AFP)
March 20, 2021, 2:16 pm
A country changed forever: Former Belgian PM remembers deadly 2016 bombings
Five years after Islamist terror attacks that killed 32 in Brussels, Charles Michel says they made a threat that was hitherto theoretical ‘very real’
By Agencies
Passengers evacuating the Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, after a string of explosions rocked Brussels airport and a city metro station, March 22, 2016. (AFP Photo/Belga/Dirk Waem/Belgium OUT)
December 7, 2020, 3:48 pm
Massive pre-trial hearings begin in 2016 Brussels subway, airport terror attacks
Hundreds of plaintiffs, as well as suspects, judges and lawyers, to convene for 10 days at former NATO headquarters due to security and sanitary problems at courthouse
By AP
A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after a terrorist shooting attack in Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
March 16, 2020, 3:42 pm
French judges order trial for 20 suspects in 2015 Paris terror attacks
Most of those charged helped plan or finance the attacks that killed 130 people, or helped the terrorists escape
By AFP
Rescue workers tend to victims of a jihadi terror attack in the 10th district of Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)
June 11, 2018, 8:19 pm
Belgium hands suspect in Paris attacks to France for a day
Osama Krayem, a Swede of Syrian origin, is thought to have played key role in 2015 Paris attacks and 2016 Brussels bombings claimed by Islamic State
By AFP
A woman leaves flowers at the scene of a shooting in Liege, Belgium, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
May 30, 2018, 11:02 pm
Islamic State claims deadly attack on Belgium police
Benjamin Herman fatally shot two policewomen and a bystander in Liege, is suspected of killing a fourth person
By AFP
Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt, right, and Federal Prosecutor Wenke Roggen address a media conference in Brussels, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
May 30, 2018, 2:06 pm
Belgium killings were a terror attack, prosecutors say
Authorities confirm that Benjamin Herman, 31, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during shooting rampage that killed 3 people in Liege
By Agencies
Hearses are pictured inside the security perimeter set by the police at the scene of a shooting in Liege, on May 29, 2018, after a gunman shot dead three people, two of them policemen, before being killed by elite officers (AFP PHOTO / BELGA / ERIC LALMAND)
May 30, 2018, 12:20 pm
Belgium shooter killed 4th person the day before attack – minister
Benjamin Herman, who was on a terror watchlist and was released from prison on Monday, killed a former fellow inmate the night before Liege rampage
By Agencies
A police officer speaks with parents of children at a nearby high school in the eastern Belgian city of Liege on May 29, 2018, after a gunman shot dead three people, two of them policemen, before being killed by elite officers. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)
May 29, 2018, 9:38 pm
Belgium shooter was on watchlist for Islamist links, targeted police
Attacker repeatedly stabbed two female police officers before killing them with their own guns, shot bystander, and took hostage in school
By Marine LAOUCHEZ and Matthieu Demeestere
Salah Abdeslam, the last living suspected gunman in the Paris terror rampage of November 13, 2015. (Federal Police of Belgium/AFP)
April 23, 2018, 1:06 pm
Paris suspect Abdeslam found guilty, handed 20 years in Brussels shootout
Belgian-born French national also awaits trial for November 2015 terror rampage in which 130 were killed
By AFP and ToI Staff
A courtroom sketch made on February 5, 2018, shows prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam (2ndR) sitting beside his alleged accomplice Sofiane Ayari (2ndL) as they are surrounded by Belgian special police officers in the courtroom at the 'Palais de Justice' courthouse in Brussels for the opening of their trial. (AFP/Benoit Peyrucq)
February 5, 2018, 8:12 pm
Abdeslam makes a sullen showing at Brussels trial
Now bearded after two years of incarceration, the only living suspect of 2015 Paris refuses to cooperate
By Clément ZAMPA
Chairwoman of the court Marie-France Keutgen (C) sits with members of the court during the opening of the trial of prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam, at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Brussels, on February 5, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Emmanuel Dunand)
February 5, 2018, 7:57 pm
In court, defiant Paris attacks suspect ‘trusts in Allah’
Salah Abdeslam, arrested after gunfight with police in 2016, accuses Brussels court of ‘bias against Muslims,’ refuses to answer questions
By Lachlan CARMICHAEL and Alex Pigman
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