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Tension in Gaza leads to extra measures in Belgium
Expatica.com ^ | January 8, 2009
Posted on January 8, 2009 11:20:35 PM PST by Steelfish
Tension in Gaza leads to extra measures in Belgium
The Jewish community in Belgium is receiving extra protection.
The Jewish community in Belgium is receiving extra protection due to the escalating tension which is spilling over to Belgium from Gaza. Police presence during demonstrations will also be heightened. This was decided by the new Home Affairs Minister Guido De Padt.
The concrete measures were discussed at a meeting at the Home Affairs crisis centre, organised by Minister De Padt. The impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza and consequences for Belgium were discussed and analysed.
In the police zones of Antwerp, Brussels centre, and Ukkel (Uccle, Brussels), an increase in police presence was requested to protect potential Jewish targets in Belgium.
This is on top of extra security that has already been in place for years to protect Jewish homes, shops, schools and synagogues. Security is also tighter around the Israeli embassy in Belgium.
More attacks on Jewish targets
06/01/09 - There was another attempted arson attack on a synagogue in Vorst (Brussels). The Jewish community expressed the hope that the conflict in the Middle East would not spill over into Belgium.
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Jan 9, 2009 0:29 | Updated Jan 9, 2009 2:03
“At Nahariya retirement home, breakfast brings a narrow escape”
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Ten minutes made the difference between life and death for Batya Masor, 68, who was not in her second-floor bedroom in a Nahariya retirement home Thursday when a Katyusha rocket crashed through it.
“At 7:30 a.m. I left my room and went downstairs to breakfast,” Masor said.
In the dining room, she sat down at a table and began to chat with her friends.
“Suddenly there was a loud explosion and the room filled with smoke,” she said. “If I had stayed upstairs 10 minutes longer, I would be dead.”
“It’s a miracle that people didn’t die,” said Hava Carmeli, the home’s owner.
Had the rocket, which ripped through the ceiling of the two-story structure on Jabotinsky Street, struck any earlier, it would have caught the residents asleep in their beds.
But most of them were already in the dining room when it fell. “That is how they were saved,” Carmeli said.”