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Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organisation successful northbound London were acceptable ablaze in a suspected antisemitic hatred crime, constabulary said connected Monday (March 23, 2026).
“An probe has been launched aft 4 ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance work were acceptable connected occurrence successful Golders Green,” Metropolitan Police said successful a statement.
“Officers stay connected country and the arson onslaught is being treated arsenic an antisemitic hatred crime.”
The ambulances belonged to Hatzola, a not-for-profit unpaid organisation that responds to aesculapian emergencies.
The London Fire Brigade said it sent six occurrence engines and 40 firefighters to the scene. Calls from residents were recorded astatine 01:40 GMT.
“Multiple cylinders connected the vehicles exploded and caused windows to interruption in an adjacent artifact of flats. No injuries are reported.”
The London Fire Brigade said the occurrence was nether power by 03:06 GMT.
Attacks against Jews and Jewish targets have risen worldwide since the October 2023 Hamas attacks successful Israel that triggered the Gaza war.
Mark Gardner, main enforcement of the Community Security Trust, which advises Britain’s estimated 290,000 Jews connected information matters, said determination was an “obvious parallel to akin caller anti-Jewish arson attacks successful Liege, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.”
Since the conflict, Britain has recorded importantly higher levels of antisemitic hate.
The most terrible antisemitic incidental successful Britain past year was the Manchester onslaught that killed 2 Jewish worshippers during Yom Kippur, the holiest time successful the Jewish calendar.
