{"id":343481,"date":"2026-03-23T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:06:10","slug":"ambulances-set-ablaze-in-suspected-antisemitic-hate-crime-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343481\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulances set ablaze in suspected antisemitic hate crime in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">British police are investigating an apparent arson attack on four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service in London early Monday morning (local time).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest, a volunteer organisation that provides emergency medical response, were damaged, according to the London fire brigade.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ambulances-on-fire-in-london-D4Z5PKPC7VC2DFYQSUWXTNEPZI.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulances on fire in London.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Ambulances on fire in London. (Source: x.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Multiple cylinders on the vehicles exploded, causing windows to break in an adjacent block of flats, it said in a statement, adding that no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The police said the incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Officers were called to Golders Green, a London neighbourhood with a large Jewish population, after receiving reports of a fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The cause of the fire is under investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police are investigating an apparent arson attack on four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-343481","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","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}