Deadly Car Ramming and Stabbing at U.K. Synagogue Is Declared Terrorist Attack

An attacker hit the people outside a synagogue in England, then went to a madness stabbed on Thursday, and killed two people called the police as a terrorist in Yom Kippur’s most sacred day of the Jewish calendar.

Police said the officers responded in a few minutes and shot and killed the attacker they described as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old citizen of Syrian origin. Although the police described the attack as a terrorist attack, they said that anti -terrorist researchers are still working to understand motivation ”.

Police, suspects of the commission, the attack outside the synagogue, the Heaton Park Hebrew Community in connection with the preparation and encouragement of terrorist acts, he said.

The police did not name those who were arrested in accordance with the rules of privacy, but they were two men and a woman in her 60s in their 30s. British authorities said that Al-Shamie entered England as a “very small child ve and given British citizenship in 2006.

Stephen Watson, the chief officer of the Great Manchester police, said that the attacker, who seriously injured three people, was wearing an officer described as çıkmı the emergence of an explosive device ”. The inspectors later determined that it could not cause an explosion.

Violence in Manchester comes in the midst of an increase in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza in the midst of increasing fears throughout Europe and the United States due to the security of Jews.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the attack as “absolutely shocking ve, and described the attacker as ış a vialy individual who wants to attack Jews because they were Jews”. He made a short trip to Copenhagen, where he attended a conference of European leaders to lead a meeting of a government committee that deals with national emergencies.

Mr. Starmer said England was shot by a hate of a rising hatred once again.

The attack worried the Jewish community in Manchester, a great Jewish and Muslim -populated multicultural city, and led to an increase in police protection in Jewish cultural and religious fields throughout the country.

Without access to their phones during the holidays, some members of the Jewish community in the fields of the synagogue did not know what happened from the attack to hours.

Chen Bass, two mothers living in the region, said, this is a new feeling that this place is no longer safe among the community, ”he said. “We think we will see more than that.”

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the BBC that the Jewish community has “saw increasing events of anti -Semitism recently” and “lived in a higher concern because of the times we live in”.

Police said that the police records did not show that Mr. Al-Shamie was previously marked as a potential threat to the British anti-terrorist operation.

The authorities were searching for two houses connected to the attacker and the arrested people. A location was in Crumpsall, England, a short distance from the attacked synagogue. The other was in the town of Prestwich, about two miles from the stage.

Manchester, one of the largest metropolitan areas of England, is home to about 30,000 people, the largest Jewish community of the country outside London. The multiculturalism of the region is the result of migration from all over the world.

Since the beginning of 2017, 19 violent attacks in the UK has been declared terrorism by police or judges. 11 of them were classified as right -wing and one left wing. Two of the attacks were uncertain.

None of these attacks took place in the synagogues, but in the last decade, the Jewish people and the places of worship in the UK were involved in a few terrorist lands that were blocked by security services. Authorities said that some were planned by the supporters of the terrorist group of the Islamic State, Neo-Nazis and others.

The Community Security Foundation, a British charity that follows antisemitism, said that all attack categories have increased in October 2023 since the beginning of the Israeli-Hamas War. In the first six months of this year, 1,521 anti -Jewish hate sections, 73 attacks and 84 Jewish property 84 cases.

In May 2017, Manchester was the place of one of the most deadly terrorist attacks of England, where a supporter of the Islamic State left a concert in Manchester Arena, while Ariana Grande fans detonated a strong bomb.

Twenty -two people were killed and hundreds were injured. The suicide bomber, 22 -year -old Salman Abedi planned the attack with his younger brother Hashem Abedi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The images of the attack on Thursday spread rapidly on social media, including the attacker and killed the attacker.

Martin Hamer, who lives in Manchester, passes through the neighborhood, initially thought that there was a traffic accident outside the synagogue. Then he said the attacker was trying to enter the synagogue through a window.

Authorities, the attacker from entering the synagogue, the “security personnel immediately courage” described as the department can be much more deadly, he said.

18 -year -old Osher Luftag, who lives in the region, said that a friend’s father prepared the doors of the synagogue from inside to prevent the attacker from entering the attacker.

According to the synagogue website, morning prayers started at 9 and the points were inside. Yom Kippur, a serious day that focuses on repentance and approaching God, requires congregations to spend 25 hours of fasting and praying.

“As we approached, Hamer said in an interview,“ We ​​noticed that he was a dead man on the ground, and we noticed that he was another man who fought for his life in front of the car. ” In a video of his daughter on Facebook, he seized the stage with his phone.

The images showed two armed police officers with rifles for the attacker who was prone to the synagogue because a seriously wounded sacrifice lies near the victim. One of the officers shouted at the people at the synagogue gates to move back: “There is a bomb! Go! Go!”

Shortly after, the attacker seemed to be trying to get up, and the police made at least one shot. The man fell to the ground.

The condemnation of the violence of the day came from the political spectrum in England and the world.

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Opposition Conservative Party, wrote on social media that people were killed only because he was Jewish ”. Ms. Badenoch said that the attack was “where the Jews asked them – where we have gone wrong in the past and what to do to be better in the future”.

Ephraim Mirvis, the President of the Rabbi of the United Hebrew communities, A social media post: “British Jews are now grasping the full scope of today’s terrorist attack in the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester.

“This is not just an attack on the Jewish community, but also an attack on the foundations of humanity.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the attack as “barbaric ve and said that his nation mourned with the Jewish community in the United Kingdom”

US Ambassador to England, Warren Stephens, said that what happened was “disturbing ve and served as“ the rise of anti -Semitism and religious intolerance in our societies and religious tolerance ”.

Speaking from Downing Street, Mr. Starmer said, orum I want to say to every Jewish person in this country: I know how much fear you will keep in you. ” He said.

“Britain will come together to wrap our arms around your community and show that England is a place where you and your family are safe, safe and belong.”

Reporting contribution Johnatan Reiss– Nader Ibrahim– Megan Specia– Mark Landler– Ali Watkins And Rylee Kirk.