“Around 10 o’clock 50 minutes (local time and 11:50 a.m. Lithuanian time) someone threw a burning object […] to the Israeli embassy,” the police said.
“We arrested one suspect. No one was injured. We are investigating and there is a large cordon around the embassy,” she added.
Security has been beefed up at the Jewish state’s embassies around the world as Israel continues its offensive on the Gaza Strip following an October 7 attack by the Islamist group Hamas.
According to official Israeli figures provided by the AFP news agency, Hamas attacks in Israel have killed around 1,160 people, mostly civilians.
Hamas also took regarding 250 hostages, of which Israel knows regarding 130 are still in the Gaza Strip, including 33 dead hostages.
After vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel launched a massive military offensive that killed at least 31,988 people, mostly women and children, in the besieged enclave, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s Health Ministry.
“It is unacceptable that such an attack might be carried out in the Netherlands. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported,” the Israeli embassy said in a statement posted on the X social network.
“This shows the dangerous consequences of a disturbing trend of hatred and incitement. This hatred cannot be tolerated,” she added.
Last month, a suspicious object, suspected to be an explosive device, was found at the official residence of the Israeli ambassador in The Hague.
Police cordoned off the scene but found no explosives.
At the time, authorities in The Hague imposed emergency security measures around the Israeli embassy in response to an unspecified threat.
In January, a demining team in Sweden dismantled a working device at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in what authorities called a possible terrorist attack.
CIDI, an association fighting anti-Semitism in the Netherlands, called Thursday’s attack another attack of hatred and violence once morest the Jewish state.
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2024-04-03 06:17:35