Suspected hate crime as 4 Jewish group ambulances set ablaze in London

London  —Police successful London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hatred transgression aft vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance work were acceptable connected occurrence aboriginal Monday morning.

Officers were called to Golders Green, a London vicinity with a ample Jewish population, aft receiving reports of a fire.

Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest, a unpaid enactment that provides exigency aesculapian responses, were damaged, according to the London occurrence brigade.

Multiple cylinders connected the vehicles exploded, causing windows to interruption successful an adjacent artifact of flats, it said successful a statement, adding that nary injuries person been reported and the occurrence has been brought nether control.

The origin of the occurrence is being investigated, authorities said.

"We cognize this incidental volition origin a large woody of assemblage interest and officers stay connected country to transportation retired urgent enquiries," Police Superintendent Sarah Jackson said.

An aerial presumption shows occurrence services monitoring the country aft 4 Hatzola ambulances were acceptable connected occurrence overnight adjacent to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, connected March 23, 2026 successful the Golders Green country of London. Police said they are treating the incidental arsenic an "antisemitic hatred crime." Leon Neal / Getty Images

She added that the constabulary are looking for 3 suspects but nary arrests person been made yet.

Police said reports of explosions were linked to state canisters connected the ambulances. Nearby homes were evacuated arsenic a precautionary measure.

Mark Reisner, an eyewitness who lives successful the neighborhood, heard large explosions and arrived astatine the country "just arsenic the 3rd ambulance was blowing up," helium told Sky News.

"A precise large explosion, you benignant of felt it spell done your guts," helium said, adding, "it's conscionable near america each reeling with disorder and shock."

Shomrim, a nonprofit enactment which operates a vicinity ticker successful the area, condemned the attack. "This was not lone a transgression enactment of arson, but a targeted and profoundly concerning incidental affecting a captious exigency work serving the section Jewish community," it said successful a station connected X.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the incident, calling it a "deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack," adding that "antisemitism has nary spot successful our society," according to the Reuters quality service.  

The fig of antisemitic incidents reported crossed the U.K. has soared since the commencement of the Israel-Hamas War successful precocious 2023, according to the Community Security Trust, which works to support the Jewish community. The radical recorded 3,700 successful 2025, up from 1,662 successful 2022.

In October 2025, an attacker drove his car into radical gathered extracurricular a Manchester synagogue to observe the Jewish vacation of Yom Kippur and stabbed 1 idiosyncratic to death. Another idiosyncratic died during the onslaught aft being inadvertently changeable by police.