Jewish schools in Brussels and Antwerp will be closed on Friday because of increasing terror threat against sensitive targets, one day after a vast anti-terrorist police operation in Belgium against jihadists returning from Syria.

Belgian police on Thursday averted ''''major terror attacks'''' similar to the ones last week in Paris when special forces killed two jihadists returning from Syria in raids in the Brussels region and in Verviers, a city in the eastern part of the country.

The bodies of the four French Jews killed last Friday in a terror attack by an Islamist jihadist on a kosher supermarket in Paris arrived early Tuesday in Israel were they will be buried in Jerusalem.

French controversial comedian Dieudonné, who has several convictions for making anti-Semitic remarks and jokes, has been placed under investigation by the Paris prosecutor for “inciting terrorism” after he posted a comment on Facebook that appeared to sympathise with the gunmen who killed four Jews in a kosher supermarket last Friday.

A fire broke out Monday afternoon at the Royal Music Conservatory of Brussels, located right next to the Great Synagogue of the Belgian capital, prompting the evacuation of some 150 people in the building.

A European Jewish leader on Sunday expressed concern over the response of the Israeli Government to the latest spate of terror attacks in France.

BBC: A 37-year-old woman called her mother from inside the supermarket and told her five people have already been killed.

An armed man has taken several hostages, including women and children, in a Kosher grocery

The European Jewish Association (EJA) condemned Wednesday’s’‘horrific’’ terror attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo and offered condolences and solidarity with the French nation.

World Jewish leaders condemned the massacre of at least 12 people in the Paris offices of the weekly satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ on Wednesday, which was reportedly carried out by Islamist terrorists identifying themselves as al-Qaeda members.