London Jewish Community Ambulances Set Ablaze in Suspected Hate Crime, Police Say

The Community Security Trust said that the attack showed an ‘obvious parallel to similar recent anti-Jewish arson attacks in Liege, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.’

A fire engine leaves the scene after four ambulances belonging to Hatzalah, a Jewish community organization, were set on fire in an incident that the police say is being treated as an anti-Semitic hate crime, in northwest London on March 23, 2026. Isabel Infantes/Reuters

London police have opened an investigation into a suspected anti-Semitic hate crime incident after an arson attack on ambulances in a Jewish neighborhood.

The London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said in a March 23 statement that it was launching an investigation after four Hatzalah ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance service were set on fire in Golders Green in the early hours of March 23.