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Jihadist Arrested In Brussels Murders Israel: P.A. Accountable For Terrorism
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man arrested on suspicion
of killing four people last
month at the Jewish Museum
of Belgium allegedly
claimed responsibil-
ity for the attack in a
video.
Belgian federal
prosecutor Frederic
Van Leeuw said June
1 in a news confer-
ence
in Brussels that
Mehdi
a
video
found after
Nemmouche
the arrest of Mehdi
Nemmouche, 29,
at a bus and train station in Marseille,
France, on May 30 includes his voice
claiming responsibility for the May 24
murders. Nemmouche had tried to film
the attack, according to Van Leeuw, but
the camera failed.
Nemmouche was arrested at Marseille's
main train/bus station on May 29 and is
being held on suspicion of terrorist activ-
ity. He arrived in Marseille aboard a bus
that left from Amsterdam via Brussels.
According to TF1, a French television
broadcaster, Nemmouche was stopped
by customs and declined to open his
bag. Weapons found there were "the
same type used on May 24 in Brussels"
reported AFP.
Nemmouche also carried a small, por-
table video camera and a baseball cap
similar to the one that is believed to have
been worn by the murderer.
Also May 30, Belgian police took two
people in for questioning in connection
with Nemmouche.
Nemmouche became a radical jihad-
ist while serving a sentence in France in
2009 for armed robbery, TF1 reported.
He left France for Belgium in 2012 and
from there traveled to Syria.
Nemmouche had spent a total of five
years in prison from 2007 to 2012 and had
visited the United Kingdom, Lebanon,
Turkey and Syria after his release. He
returned to Europe in March 2014.
Roger Cukierman, president of French
Jewry's umbrella organization CRIF, told
the British Independent newspaper, "It
seems that the worst fears of Western
governments are being realized. The
European jihadists in Syria are a time
bomb waiting to go off?'
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Obituaries
Times of Israel
I
sraeli ministers said they would hold
a new Palestinian unity government
responsible for rockets fired at Israel
from Gaza, in a response to the inclusion
of Hamas in a new Palestinian cabinet
sworn in on June 2.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and eight top ministers said they would
boycott the new government and form a
team to "examine courses of action:'
Earlier in the day, Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas swore in 17
ministers who make up a new techno-
cratic government meant to steer the P.A.
toward elections in six months.
The move angered Israel for includ-
ing the Hamas movement, which refuses
to recognize Israel and which Israel and
much of the international community
consider a terror organization.
In a statement released by the prime
minister's office, Netanyahu called Abbas
a peace rejectionist and vowed not to
negotiate with his new government.
The cabinet decided Israel would now
view the Palestinian government as respon-
sible for any hostile action emanating from
the Gaza Strip as well as
the West Bank, according f p*
to the statement.
The security cabinet
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also voted unanimously
to reject any negotiations
with a Palestinian gov-
ernment that includes
Benjamin
Hamas, and authorized
Netanyahu
Netanyahu to impose
further sanctions upon
the Palestinian leadership.
The cabinet also voted to prevent any
terror organizations from participating in
future Palestinian elections. That likely
means that Israel will refuse to allow
Palestinian elections in east Jerusalem
should Hamas take part.
Abbas hailed the end of Palestinian divi-
sion, saying, "We announce the end of a
Palestinian division that has greatly dam-
aged our national case?'
Abbas has already pledged that the new
administration will abide by the principles
laid down by the Middle East peace quar-
tet that call for recognizing Israel, reject-
ing violence and abiding by all existing
agreements. However, Hamas has yet to
ratify those conditions.
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