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Victims of French supermarket terror attack to be buried in Jerusalem

Xinhua, January 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

The four victims who were killed in an attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris will be buried in Jerusalem, the Prime Minister's Office announced Sunday in a statement.

The statement said the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted requests made by the families of the victims and ordered Israeli authorities to make proper arrangements to transfer the bodies to Jerusalem. It added that funerals are set to take place on Tuesday.

All fatalities on Friday's incident were Jewish: Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada.

Prime Minister Netanyahu traveled to Paris on Sunday to take part in a mass anti-terrorism rally following the wave of terrorist attacks in the French capital last week.

Other world leaders taking part in the event including the U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Upon the Prime Minister's departure, he reiterated his stance against Islamic extremists and called upon the Jews in France to immigrate to Israel.

According to the 1950 Law of Return, Jews worldwide can immigrate to Israel without any restrictions.

"The Islamic terror is threatening the whole humanity," Netanyahu said, according to a statement from his office. "Any Jew who wants to immigrate to Israel will be received here with open arms," he added.

According to official figures, France is the leading source of immigration into Israel as of 2014, with more than 4,500 French Jews moving to Israel that year, marking a 25-year high. Officials said the immigration is attributed to both weak French economy and an increasing sense of anti-Semitism.

On Wednesday, brother Cherif and Said Kouachi stormed into the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine offices, and shot dead 12 people. They charged the magazine avenged the honor of Islamic prophet Muhammad, which featured in the magazine's caricatures.

On Thursday, an apparent associate of the Kouachi brothers, Amedi Calibouli, killed a French policewoman and on Friday took over a Kosher market store, holding hostages demanding the release of the Kouachi brothers.

The three gunmen and four hostages in the supermarket died, while several others were seriously injoured. Endit