Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday thanked the Bulgarians for what he said was their solid and professional investigation of the bomb attack, that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver last year in Burgas.
Referring to the findings, which blamed Hezbollah’s military wing for involvement, Netanyahu said “there is only one Hezbollah, it is one organization with one leadership.”
Netanyahu said the findings are additional proof of what Israel has long known, that Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors are waging a terrorist war that “crosses borders and continents.” He said that attack in Bulgaria was just one of many that Hezbollah and Iran have planned and carried out, including attacks in Thailand, Kenya, Turkey, India, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Georgia. “The attack in Burgas was an attack on European soil against an EU country,” Netanyahu said. “We hope the Europeans will draw the necessary conclusions regarding the true nature of Hezbollah.”
Israel, which has been pressing a reluctant EU to place the group on its terror blacklist for nearly two decades, hopes the attack in Burgas will now convince the Europeans of the need to do so.
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