According to a report released by the German weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday, the German Intelligence Agency BND spied on the Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Office for a number of years. Officials in the PMO’s declined comment on the report, which stated German also spied on NASA, the US Department of State, US diplomats in Europe, the US Air Force, Austria, Belgium the main offices of OPEC and more.

Der Spiegel reports the spying including constant monitoring of emails and other communications of some of the agencies listed. It adds the target was not the nation’s listed but organization like the International Red Cross in Geneva.

In 2013, the German government learned that the United States was spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. This led to a major diplomatic row and President Barak Obama explaining friends do not spy on one another.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)