Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a statement offering condolences to Paris on Wednesday night, after Islamists launched a horrific shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine office which killed 12 people. "On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I offer condolences to the President of France, the bereaved families and the French
12 people have been killed in a shooting attack at the offices of French satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo in central Paris. Two of the dead are reportedly police and ten are journalists; some reports say two of the journalists are the paper's cartoonists. Ten people are reported injured, five of them critically.
Immediately after the shooting attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, French Prime Minister Francois Hollande arrived on scene and defined the shooting as a terrorist attack. Hollande noted 11 people were killed by the gunmen who fled the scene after opening fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles and following a
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