Dutch police are investigating an overnight explosion that a pro-Israel organization claims was aimed at its center in the country.
Police said the explosion, which occurred in Nijkerk, near Amsterdam, caused only limited damage. There were no injuries and no arrests, police said in X. The group “Christians for Israel” said the explosion was aimed at its Israeli center in Nijkerk.
“The attack is part of a worrying trend of earlier attacks on Jewish and pro-Israel targets in the Netherlands and Belgium,“ the group said on its website.
It is unclear whether the overnight attack was linked to the Iran war, but Israel's foreign ministry said last month that “an epidemic of anti-Semitism is raging“ in the Netherlands after an explosion at a Jewish school in Amsterdam amid escalating regional violence in the Middle East.
Security in the capital was tightened after similar incidents in the Dutch city of Rotterdam and Liege in neighboring Belgium, the city of Amsterdam said at the time.