5/7/2025–|Last update: 11:40 (Mecca time)
Today, Saturday, the Australian authorities condemned what they described as a fire that intentionally targeted a Jewish church in Melbourne during the presence of worshipers inside it.
The police said, in a statement, that the fire broke out at the entrance to the synagogue, east of the capital of Victoria, on Friday evening.
Firefighters managed to put out fire without any injuries among the twenty people who were inside, according to the police statement.
The police said that they believed that the attacker poured a flammable liquid on the front door of the seed and set fire to it, suggesting that the executor would be a white man in his thirties without determining his identity yet.
“There is no place in our society to anti -Semitic behavior or hatred,” she added.
“Any attack on a place of worship is an act of hate, and any attack on a Jewish worship is a useful act of Semitism,” said the Prime Minister of Victoria Jacinta Alan.
The attack comes 7 months after another Jewish synagogue was targeted in Melbourne, where a person was hit by a fire that caused widespread damage to the place.