MOSCOW, January 9 (Sputnik) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered assistance to French authorities amid the ongoing terrorism crisis, The Times of Israel reported Friday.
Netanyahu is said to have convened a round of consultation talks with senior Israeli officials and expressed his willingness to provide intelligence and other assistance to France.
He also gave his condolences to the French people over the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters in Paris and reaffirmed Israel's commitment to cooperate in order to defeat terrorists.
On Wednesday, French magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked by gunmen who entered the magazine's office and opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring another 11. The two men, suspected of the attack, have been killed by law enforcers during a police raid on a print shop in an industrial zone near the town of Dammartin-en-Goele north-east of Paris.
On Thursday, a female police officer was killed during a shoot-out in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris. On Friday, an armed man took several hostages in a kosher food supermarket in eastern Paris and was later killed by the police.
