AMSTERDAM (AP) \u2014 Dutch authorities were hunting Saturday for two people suspected of setting off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam. The mayor denounced the attack as a cowardly act of aggression against the city’s Jewish community.<\/p>\n
A City Hall statement said the overnight blast against the outer wall of the school in the Dutch capital\u2019s Buitenveldert district caused only limited damage. <\/p>\n
A police statement said investigators established that the two suspects arrived on a motor scooter. One placed an object against the wall and then ran back to the scooter, with the detonation following as they sped away. <\/p>\n
Mayor Femke Halsema said that Amsterdam\u2019s Jewish residents feel \u201cfear and anger\u201d and are increasingly being targeted by antisemitism.<\/p>\n
“That is unacceptable. A school must be a place where children can learn safely. Amsterdam must be a place where Jews can live safely,” she said.<\/p>\n
Security around Jewish schools and other sites was reinforced after an explosion near a synagogue in Liege, Belgium, and a blast that caused a small fire at the entrance of a synagogue in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo nights in a row, a cowardly attack with an explosive at a Jewish building. First in Rotterdam, now in Amsterdam,” the Dutch justice and security minister, David van Weel, posted on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of Jewish institutions has our full attention. An investigation into the perpetrators is underway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM (AP) \u2014 Dutch authorities were hunting Saturday for two people suspected of setting off an explosion outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,1125,20938,1126,1124,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-41903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-ap-politics","10":"tag-ap-religion","11":"tag-ap-world-news","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116244566883449349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}