Israel urges global joint efforts to fight terrorism
Xinhua, March 22, 2016 Adjust font size:
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the world to fight "terrorism" collectively, as Belgium faced two terrorist attacks Tuesday.
Two explosions, one in Brussels international airport and another in a metro station, killed around 34 people Tuesday.
The Islamic State (IS) allegedly claimed responsibility for the attacks.
In Israel, Netanyahu's live videoed speech was broadcast from his Jerusalem office addressing the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israel lobby organization in Washington D.C.
He related Tuesday's attacks in Brussels with the recent six-month-long wave of Palestinian unrest in the occupied territories and Israel.
"The sequence of attacks from Paris to San Bernardino, from Istanbul to the Ivory Coast and now in Brussels, and the daily attacks against Israel, is one extended assault against us all. In all the cases mentioned the terrorists have no resolvable grievances," he said.
A succession of stabbing, shooting, and car-ramming attacks since mid-September killed 28 Israelis and two U.S. citizens. Meanwhile at least 180 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire.
Israel accused the Palestinian Authority of feeding the violence, "inciting" attacks against Israel, while Palestinians claim it is the outcome of 49 years of Israeli occupation of their lands. Endit