British prosecutors said on Friday they have charged a fourth person in connection with an arson attack last month on Jewish community ambulances in north London.
The police said Judex Atshatshi, 18, a British national from Dagenham, east of the capital, has been charged with committing arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.
Three others were previously charged in connection with the incident and will next appear at the Old Bailey on April 24.
The pro-Iranian terror group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, or Movement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam, has claimed responsibility for a spate of attacks across Europe on American, Israeli and Jewish targets, including the arson attack that destroyed several ambulances belonging to the Jewish volunteer emergency service Hatzola, which were parked at a synagogue in the Golders Green area of north London.
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On Friday, British police said they were investigating a security incident near the Israeli Embassy in London after Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya posted online that it had targeted the premises with drones carrying “dangerous substances.”
Police officers work in the closed Kensington Palace Gardens, west London, as they investigate if the nearby Israeli Embassy was targeted by drones carrying dangerous substances, April 17, 2026. (Ben Stansall/AFP)
Scotland Yard confirmed that Israel’s embassy was not attacked, but that it was “carrying out urgent enquiries to determine the authenticity of the video and to identify any potential link between it and the items discarded in Kensington Gardens.”
The incident came a day after London police said they had arrested two young men and a teenage boy over an attempted arson attack on the offices of a Persian media outlet.
Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya claimed responsibility for the attack, SITE Intelligence Group reported.
A spokesman for the opposition TV station Iran International confirmed on Thursday that it was the “organization referred to in the Met statement.”
Police said it “is not being treated as a terrorist incident but is being investigated by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing London.”
Police officers search outside a warehouse park housing offices of the Persian-language TV station, Iran International, in Wembley, northwest London, on April 16, 2026 (Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)
The Met Police linked the attack to two other arson incidents targeting ambulances and a Jewish charity and a synagogue, saying they were being treated as separate incidents but noting a “similarity” between the attacks.
Iran International is one of several Persian‑language outlets critical of Iran’s clerical leadership operating from abroad.
Police revealed the incident after reporting an attempted arson attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue, shortly after midnight on Wednesday in north London.
A police forensics officer works during an investigation into an attack in the early hours of the morning, at the Finchley Reform Synagogue, in the North Finchley area of north London, on April 15, 2026. (Toby Shepheard / AFP)
Attackers threw bottles suspected to contain petrol at the building, but caused no damage. A 47-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man were later detained in Watford, north of the capital.
SITE Intelligence Group said that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya also claimed responsibility for that attack.
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