An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, causing no injuries, in what the city’s mayor described as a deliberate attack against the Jewish community, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
The explosion at the school in an upscale residential neighborhood on Amsterdam’s south side caused only limited damage, Mayor Femke Halsema said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly.
Four arrested after explosion at Rotterdam synagogue
Security at synagogues and Jewish institutions in the Dutch capital had already been heightened ahead of the attack, as the bombing is the second attack against a Jewish target in the Netherlands in recent days.
It comes after an explosive device detonated at a synagogue in the center of Rotterdam on Thursday, causing no injuries.
Four suspects in Thursday’s bombing were apprehended later that day when police stopped a car that was driving suspiciously close to another synagogue. A new Shi’ite terror group, calling itself Ashab Al Yamim, claimed responsibility for the attack.
In neighboring Belgium, an explosion caused a fire at a synagogue in Liege on Monday.
Earlier this week, a synagogue in Michigan was targeted during a vehicle-ramming incident involving an active shooter. Additionally, several synagogues in Canada have also faced attacks, including targeted shootings, over the past month.
