{"id":19971,"date":"2026-03-25T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/uk-police-have-arrested-2-people-accused-of-arson-on-ambulances-belonging-to-a-jewish-charity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:49:24","slug":"uk-police-have-arrested-2-people-accused-of-arson-on-ambulances-belonging-to-a-jewish-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/uk-police-have-arrested-2-people-accused-of-arson-on-ambulances-belonging-to-a-jewish-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police have arrested 2 people accused of arson on ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">London &#8212; <\/span>British police arrested two people in a case on Wednesday <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/london-golders-green-ambulance-arson-antisemitism-hatzola-493f0d803b9c197a158d8f970eeb0998\">Arson on four ambulances<\/a> Relating to a Jewish charity, which authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two men, aged 45 and 47, were arrested in London on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and both men have been taken to a police station in the city for questioning, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Commander Helen Flanagan, head of counter terrorism policing London, said the arrests were &#8220;a significant breakthrough in the investigation&#8221;. But he said surveillance camera footage of the incident showed that three people were involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police have not declared the incident a terrorist attack, but a claim of responsibility by a group with possible ties to Iran is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A fire Monday morning destroyed four ambulances belonging to the volunteer organization Hatzolah Northwest in Golders Green, a London neighborhood with a large Jewish population. Oxygen cylinders on the vehicles exploded, shattering the windows of an adjacent apartment block. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">the community also declined <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uk-jewish-community-antisemitic-attack-hatzola-iran-b563836e81aa1bb075955b18e1acedb6\">unstable sense of security<\/a>The Middle East is already strained by wars and what many say is growing hatred toward Jews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Britain has accused Iran of using criminal disguises to carry out attacks targeting European soil <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-pouria-zeraati-iran-international-tv-1eefb01cbd5e8f1e25de97c53c333524\">opposition media outlets<\/a> And the Jewish community. Britain&#8217;s domestic intelligence service MI5 says it has foiled more than 20 &#8220;potentially lethal&#8221; Iran-backed plots by October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police are investigating a claim of responsibility posted on social media by a group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yameen al-Islamiyya, which translates as Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Israeli government has described it as a recently established group with suspected ties to pro-Iranian networks. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rotterdam-synagogue-attack-terror-suspects-netherlands-bfeb59e918d0678848fc564da3b1df31\">Also took responsibility for the synagogue attacks<\/a> In Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Metropolitan Police chief Mark Rowley said detectives were investigating the claim but it was too early to attribute the attack to the Iranian state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London &#8212; British police arrested two people in a case on Wednesday Arson on four ambulances Relating to a Jewish charity, which authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime. Two men, aged 45 and 47, were arrested in London on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and both men have been taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2042,7560,159,7756,7561,6336,2927,515,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-19971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-ambulances","10":"tag-arrested","11":"tag-arson","12":"tag-belonging","13":"tag-charity","14":"tag-jewish","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19973,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions\/19973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}