{"id":7275,"date":"2026-04-19T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:29:02","slug":"u-k-police-investigate-arson-attack-on-building-formerly-housing-jewish-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=7275","title":{"rendered":"U.K. police investigate arson attack on building formerly housing Jewish charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.K. counterterrorism police are investigating an arson attack on a London building that was formerly used by a Jewish charity following a spate of similar incidents in recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fire occurred late Friday in London’s northern Hendon neighborhood, the Metropolitan Police\u00a0said in a statement.\u00a0Police were called to the scene shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday, when a man was spotted approaching a row of shops carrying a plastic bag. He placed the bag by a building before lighting the items inside, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bag was later found to have three bottles containing “fluid,” police said. When the bottles failed to fully ignite, the man fled the scene, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No one was injured. Photos show a sign for the education organization Jewish Futures still visible in the building’s window. The Community Security Trust, a charity that provides safety advice to Jewish groups, said the fire “caused minimal damage to a nearby doorway.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“We are aware of what appears to be another attempted arson, this time targeting a premises in north London previously used by the Jewish community,” the Community Security Trust charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said the community can expect to see a heightened law enforcement presence in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The attack mirrored recent incidents in the same area. Two people were arrested on Wednesday over a separate arson attack on a North London synagogue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In late March, four Jewish community ambulances were\u00a0torched<\/span>\u00a0in Golders Green, also in north London. Hamza Iqbal, 20, and Rehan Khan, 19, and a 17-year-old of dual British-Pakistani nationality who cannot be named because of his age, all from east London, were charged<\/span>\u00a0with arson and taken into custody in connection with that incident. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Police investigate the scene of an attempted arson attack in the Hendon area of London, England.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Helen Flanagan, a member of the Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism unit, said in a statement that the Hendon attack is “not being linked to other incidents in north-west London,” but said that the unit is leading the investigation “due to the similarities of each attack.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday evening, a burning object was thrown towards the offices of Persian media outlet Iran International, which is heavily critical of Iran’s clerical leadership. It landed in a car park and no one was injured.<\/p>\n

Little-known group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya<\/span>, with links to Iran, claimed responsibility for that and the attacks on the synagogue and ambulances, according to SITE Intelligence Group.<\/p>\n

The group previously claimed similar attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

The Community Security Trust has\u00a0recorded\u00a03,700 antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom in 2025, the second-highest total ever reported to the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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