Belgian authorities arrested a suspect with a fire bomb outside the Israeli Embassy in Brussels on Saturday morning, the Foreign Ministry stated.
No embassy workers were harmed in the incident.
On Tuesday, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot declared his intent to recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Prévot stipulated that formal recognition will only come once the last hostage has been released and once Hamas no longer exercises any form of governance over Gaza.
Belgian PM says he will recognize Palestinian state
Joel Rubinfeld, the President of the Belgian League Against Antisemitism responded to the statement in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on the same day. "We are going to be the last generation with a significant Jewish population in Belgium," Rubinfeld said, “for the Jewish people in Belgium, it is an additional drop in the cup of water that was already full.”
Raphael Werner, the honorary chairman of the Forum of Jewish Organizations (FJO) referenced a column written by Herman Brusselmans who's anti-Israel sentiments included, “I get so furious that I want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Jew I meet.”
Werner expressed his fear for the future and safety of Jewry in Belgium on Tuesday, prior to the Saturday arrest of the Molotov cocktail suspect.