Mask-wearing arsonists set a synagogue ablaze in a pre-dawn attack Friday in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said.
This photo shows a general view of the fire damage at the cordoned off Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6, 2024. Mask-wearing arsonists set a synagogue ablaze in a pre-dawn attack on December 6 in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said, sparking widespread condemnation.
- Tania LEE / AFP: Mask-wearing arsonists set a synagogue ablaze in a pre-dawn attack Friday in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said, sparking widespread condemnation. The fire broke out at 4:10 am in the Adass Israel Synagogue when some congregants were already inside, police said, gutting much of the building in the southeast Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea.A witness entering the synagogue for morning prayers saw “two individuals wearing masks”, Detective Inspector Chris Murray of the Victorian police arson and explosive squad told reporters at the scene.The synagogue was “engulfed in flames”, he added.Police will increase patrols as they hunt for the arsonists, who were wearing dark clothing, he said.Television images showed firefighters hosing down the embers through the blackened door of the single-storey building, which has a grey concrete facade. A board member of the synagogue, Benjamin Klein, said a few congregants were sitting and praying inside when the fire started.Liquid was poured inside the synagogue and set alight, he said.The congregants “ran out the back of the synagogue. One man who ran out -- his hand got burnt,“ he said.Holy books and furniture had been destroyed, he said, vowing however that the community would “rebuild”. Members of the congregation formed a human chain to remove religious items from the damaged synagogue, including Torah scrolls -- one of which was brought to Australia from Germany in World War II, the Age newspaper reported. Klein said the synagogue had increased security over the past 12 months amid safety concerns, without giving further details.Klein, who was a child at the time, said he remembered standing inside the damaged synagogue with his grandfather, who he said was a Holocaust survivor. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “unequivocally” condemned the fire and said federal police would help the state to investigate it. “This violence and intimidation and destruction at a place of worship is an outrage,“ Albanese said in a statement.The prime minister said he had “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitism.The war in Gaza has sparked protests from supporters of Israel and Palestinians in cities around Australia, as in much of the world. Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion said the community had been living in fear of such an incident since the start of the war in Gaza.“This is something that is the greatest manifestation of what we have been seeing and hearing in terms of threatening e-mails, threatening social media, threatening letters and all sorts of other material.” Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack which triggered the Gaza war resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,580 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.
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