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DUBAI – Al-Qaida linked group Jund al-Khilafah has claimed responsibility for shootings this week in France, according to a statement posted on jihadist websites on Thursday.

“On . . . March 19th, our brother Yousef the Frenchman carried out an operation that shook the foundations of the Zionist Crusaders . . . and filled their hearts with terror,” said the statement apparently referring to the shooting of an Israeli-French teacher and three children at a Jewish school in France.

“We claim responsibility for these operations,” said the statement, adding that Israel’s “crimes . . . will not go unpunished.”

The jihadist group also called on France to change “its policies towards Muslims . . . and to abandon its aggressive tendencies towards Islam,” warning that such policies will bring “nothing but destruction.”

And it added: “Jews we say to you . . . our date with you is near and you will be dazzled by what we are capable of.”