A 17-year-old boy has been charged with arson after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London.<\/p>\n
The teenager, a British national from Brent, north-west London, who has not been named because of his age, is due to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He is accused of arson not endangering life.<\/p>\n
Footage was posted online of a figure in dark clothing setting light to a bottle of liquid and throwing it through a window at Kenton united synagogue in Harrow late on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity, said the incident had caused minor smoke damage to an internal room but that there had been no injuries or significant structural damage.<\/p>\n
The attack was the latest in a string of separate incidents that have targeted Jewish sites in London.<\/p>\n
Four Jewish community ambulances were destroyed in an arson attack in Golders Green on 23 March, and there have been further attacks at a synagogue in Finchley and a former Jewish charity building in Hendon.<\/p>\n
In another incident, a drone was flown near the Israeli embassy in London.<\/p>\n
A group that calls itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, that is suspected to be Iran-backed, has claimed responsibility for most of the incidents, along with other attacks in Europe, since 9 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy has been charged with arson after an attack on a synagogue in north-west London. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-403172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}