Explosion reported at Jewish school in Amsterdam

An explosion has damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam, according to Dutch media.

The city’s mayor Femke Halsema said she believed the overnight blast was a targeted attack against the Jewish community.

Police and fire services were able to respond to the incident quickly.

Damage to the school in an upmarket residential neighbourhood on the south side ​of Amsterdam was limited.

And no injuries have been reported.

Police are investigating camera footage appearing to show the person who detonated the explosive.

“This ​is a cowardly act ​of aggression against the Jewish community,” Ms ​Halsema said.

“Jewish people in Amsterdam are ⁠increasingly confronted with antisemitism. This is unacceptable.”

Tight security at Jewish schools and institutions has been strengthened even more following attacks in recent days on synagogues in Rotterdam and in Liege, Belgium.

There was also an attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, near Detroit in Michigan on Thursday, where a Lebanese-born US citizen allegedly rammed his car into the building.

Authorities said the attacker, who was armed with a rifle, was fatally shot.

None of the synagogue’s staff, teachers or the 140 children at its early childhood centre were injured.

Federal investigators said the Michigan incident was an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.

Fears about possible attacks against Jewish ⁠communities around the world have ​increased following US-Israeli ​airstrikes on Iran and a subsequent military response from Tehran.

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