According to an Israeli intelligence news website, the Belgian government some weeks ago hired an Israeli security firm to inspect security arrangements at Brussels Airport where two bomb attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists claimed the lives of more than 30 people and injured scores of victims.
‘’In terms of airport security, the Europeans are 40 years behind Israel,'''' deplores , Pini Schiff, a former aviation security supreme officer at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport and currently CEO of Israel’s association of security companies, after the terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport claimed by the Islamic State.
According to a Channel 2 report, Israel warned Belgium several weeks ago about inadequate security measures at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport where two deadly bomb attacks took place on Tuesday.
The Jewish Crisis Management Team of Antwerp urged the community to comply with these rules and declared the next three days to be days of mourning with celebrations and public feasting forbidden.
“We are shocked and we are sad, but we are determined to fight this scourge until it is defeated,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said in reaction to the terrorist attacks in the Belgian capital Brussels which killed 31 people and wounded 270 at the airport and in a metro station.
The European Union is not considering sanctions against Iran following last week’s ballistic missile tests by Tehran, said EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini.
In a further sign of rapprochement between Israel and Turkey, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the suicide car bombing in Turkey’s capital Ankara which killed 37 people and wounded more than 70 others on Sunday.
European Union Foreign Ministers on Monday welcomed ideas presented by French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to convene an international conference later this year in Paris in order to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian talks.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, has approved a €252.5 million ($274 million) assistance package supporting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian refugees.
Israel in turn has demanded to know whether the weapons were intended to attack Kurdish rebels positioned on the Turkish-Syrian border, Kuwaiti paper reports.
