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‘Shocking but not unexpected’: Jewish community reacts to ambulance attack
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In Golders Green the smell of smoke still lingers in the air.
The source: the remanants of burnt out ambulances, which lie blackened in a car park next to a synagogue in the north-west London suburb.
In the early hours of Monday, four Jewish charity-run ambulances were set alight at the site, leading to explosions that caused the windows of nearby buildings to shatter and the evacuation of some residents.
While no-one was hurt, the incident - which is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime and investigated by counter-terror police officers - has left members of the Jewish community feeling increasingly unsettled and fearful.
"It's a shock," said Jack Taub, who is on the leadership team of the Machzike Hadath Synagogue, where the incident took place.
The source: the remanants of burnt out ambulances, which lie blackened in a car park next to a synagogue in the north-west London suburb.
In the early hours of Monday, four Jewish charity-run ambulances were set alight at the site, leading to explosions that caused the windows of nearby buildings to shatter and the evacuation of some residents.
While no-one was hurt, the incident - which is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime and investigated by counter-terror police officers - has left members of the Jewish community feeling increasingly unsettled and fearful.
"It's a shock," said Jack Taub, who is on the leadership team of the Machzike Hadath Synagogue, where the incident took place.
